"Rune" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense. Another idiom reported for the sign is 'runsten' /roon'stn/, derived from the fact that many of the interesting features are Viking rune-stones. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... were like the rune of the heart of the forest, like the music of deep streams. I turned away my head ashamed, and strove to think of nothing but the waking ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... silver lake, and away in the distance we caught glimpses of the sea. Before us were graceful, piled mountains, the crenelated mass of Les Trois Couronnes glittering with wintry diamonds. Against the morning sky, stood up, clear and cold, the cone of far La Rune. ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... September afternoon My heart is wide awake, yet full of dreams. The air, alive with hushed confusion, teems With scent of grain-fields, and a mystic rune, Foreboding of the fall of Summer soon, Keeps swelling and subsiding, till there seems O'er all the world of valleys, hills, and streams, Only ...
— In Divers Tones • Charles G. D. Roberts
... lived, and did but sleep as he sat from weariness after fight, with helm and mail upon him. Shield and axe rested on either side of him, ready to hand, against the chair; and behind him, along the wall, were his spears, ashen shafted and rune graven. ...
— King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet • Charles W. Whistler
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