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I had come to the last of the fruit when a very loud voice tore me away from the pleasures of my dessert. With one spring I bounded out of the dining-room into the study. "Undoubtedly it is Runic," said the Professor, bending his brows; "but there is a secret in it, and I mean to discover the key." A violent gesture finished the sentence.
These towns were probably only inconsiderable groups of those houses in stone and wood, of which so many ruins have been found from Cape Farewell, as far as Upernavik in about 72 degrees 50 minutes. At the same time numerous runic inscriptions, which have now been deciphered, have given a degree of absolute certainty to facts so long unknown.
The Ogam inscription on the Lumasting stone has been made by one expert to read: EATTUICHEATTS MAHEADTTANNN HCCFFSTFF NCDTONS. A strange and inexplicable aggregation of consonants. The stone represented below, 101 b, bears an inscription in Runic characters.
A circlet of gold wrought with runic symbols, to the left side of which was attached a raven's wing, encircled his head, while in his right hand he held a long willow staff or wand to which were attached seven eagle feathers that fluttered in the breeze. It was the great Sachem, the White Cloud.
I am the possessor of the rainbow secrets for somewhere in Iceland, a runic legend runs, there is a region vast as night, where all the rainbows worn out or to be used drift about in their vapoury limbo. I have the key to this land of dreams. Over the earth I shall float my rainbows of art like a flock of angels. With them I propose to dazzle the eyes of mankind, to arouse sleeping souls.
If my intercession in behalf of said Victor is considered worthy of acceptance, pray command me, Estelle, for I swear I never keep Runic faith with an ally." "My son, did it ever occur to you that your eloquence might be more successfully and agreeably exercised in your own behalf?" Mrs.
In 1051, during another expedition, an Icelandic woman was killed by some Skrellings, and in 1867, a tomb was exhumed, bearing a runic inscription, and containing bones, and some articles of the toilet, which are now preserved in the museum at Washington. This discovery was made at the exact spot indicated in the Saga which related these events, and which was not itself discovered until 1863.
He had been away to Russia to King Jaroslaf; he had been in the Emperor's Varanger guard at Constantinople and, it was whispered, had slain a lion there with his bare hands; he had carved his name and his comrades' in Runic characters if you go to Venice you may see them at this day on the loins of the great marble lion, which stood in his time not in Venice but in Athens.
The old runic inscriptions that he found on the tombstones exercised a great fascination over Borrow. Thirty years later he was remembered as an accurate, painstaking man. His evenings were frequently occupied in translating into English the Manx poem Illiam Dhoo, or Brown William.
He was led to this conclusion not by the ornamentation, but rather in spite of it; and in consideration of the runic inscriptions, which he declared had not only passed out of date on funeral monuments as late as the year 1000, but as he read the name of Alcfrid on the Bewcastle Cross, he inferred both that and the Ruthwell Cross to be productions of the latter half of the seventh century.
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