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Rhine Falls, 91. Richmond, 29, 30, 45. Ridley, 10. Ripley, 30, 45. Rochester, 13, 32. Roden, River, 47. Roman Catholic gravestones in Scotland, 86. Romans, 49, 101. Romney Marsh, 29. Romney, Old, 17. Roovesmore, Ireland, 103. Rough gravestones, 78, 86. Round Tower, 78. Royal Artillery, 27. Rubbings of gravestones, 13. Runic inscriptions, 83, 101, 102, 103. Rush, Ireland, 79. St. Mary Cray, 40. St.
Let it be granted that Wotan is ruler of the world not a first cause, but a god, limited in his powers, conditioned, ruling only so long as he obeys the laws inscribed in Runic characters on his spear.
There were, besides, Runic monuments, of which legends could not be deciphered; and later inscriptions to the memory of champions, of whom the names only were preserved from oblivion.
"For Cynewulf," says a critic, "'earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God." Cynewulf has inserted his name in runic characters in four poems: Christ, Elene, Juliana, a story of a Christian martyr, and the least important, The Fates of the Apostles.
It is a manuscript, a Runic manuscript." "Runic?" "Yes. Do you want me to explain what that is?" "Of course not," I replied in the tone of an injured man. But my uncle persevered, and told me, against my will, of many things I cared nothing about. "Runic characters were in use in Iceland in former ages. They were invented, it is said, by Odin himself.
The next day would be spent in the same manner, except that probably the Chleuh boys with sidelong eyes and clean caftans would come instead of the singing-girls, and weave the arabesque of their dance in place of the runic pattern of the singing.
Some authors take several Runic medals, medals, at least, whose inscriptions are in the Runic characters, for talismans, it being notorious that the northern nations, in their heathen state, were much devoted to them, M. Keder, however has shown, that the medals here spoken of are quite other things than talismans. It appears from the Evangelists that, when St.
Such sticks were in early times used by the northern nations for the purpose of ascertaining future events. The sticks were shaken up, and from the figures that they formed a kind of divination was derived. The Runic characters were of various kinds. They were chiefly used for magical purposes.
There had been all the traditions of Poe and his tempestuous youth and Randy, passing the door which had once opened and closed on that dark figure, had felt the thrill of a living personality of one who spoke still in lines of ineffable beauty "Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow " and again "A dirge for her the doubly dead, in that she died so young " with the gayety and gloom and grandeur of those chiming, rhyming, tolling bells "Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme " and that "grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore "
There was an old Runic monument, however, near the centre of the churchyard, that had some strange sculpture on it, and an inscription still legible by persons learned in such matters. Against the tower of the church, too, there is a circular stone, with carving on it, said to be of immemorial antiquity.
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