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  • proper noun An ancient Germanic language written using runes

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Examples

  • The names of the gods were cut upon them in Runic characters.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The written alphabet was called Runic, and the letters,

    Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

  • One cannot travel far in Denmark, Norway, or Sweden without meeting with great stones of different forms, engraven with characters called Runic, which appear at first sight very different from all we know.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • One cannot travel far in Denmark, Norway, or Sweden without meeting with great stones of different forms, engraven with characters called Runic, which appear at first sight very different from all we know.

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Following the demise of Flagship Studios, those responsible for the studio's Mythos, a free-to-play MMORPG, have formed a new development company called Runic Games.

    Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO' 2008

  • In 1959, about a decade before "conceptual art" became an official movement, Day designed a textile called "Runic" that is just a plain blue field covered edge to edge with strange, alphabetical marks in white.

    Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

  • "They (the 'Runic' odes) have a certain sublime and figurative cast of diction, which is indeed one of their predominant characteristics ....

    The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883

  • Milton, _Lycidas_, line 11.] [277] [By "Runic" Byron means "Northern," "Anglo-Saxon."] [278] [Compare "In that word, beautiful in all languages, but most so in yours -- _Amor mio_ -- is comprised my existence here and hereafter."

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • As my studies of the Runes clarified -- the obscure, ancient Norse symbols Odin brought back from his time on the World Tree -- I began making connections between the progression of their story and characters of the Potterverse, not just between personality traits and the meaning of the Runes, but in how the characters represented stages of Harry's hero's journey through the progression of the Runic aetts.

    Kelley Harrell: Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark Kelley Harrell 2011

  • As well, this is all subjective, so all of you Runic academics put down your Hávamál and just read.

    Kelley Harrell: Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark Kelley Harrell 2011

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