And each, with pilgrim staff and shoon, Bore on his scrip a mystic rune, Some maxim of his chosen creed, By which, with swerveless rule and line, He shaped his life in word and deed To ends heroic and divine!

Then, taking the astonished Frithiof's arm, Sigurd Ring returned home, where, feeling death draw near, he dedicated himself anew to Odin by carving the Geirs-odd, or sacrificial runes, deeply in his aged chest.

[Footnote G: "To cast runes" was, in the olden time, to exercise witchcraft.

Across the unpathwayed seas, Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the Saga of the West.

Is it a Voice that holds the runes of sleep?

As he had employed much of his leisure time in learning runes and all kinds of magic arts, he was often of great assistance to his brothers, who generally chose him leader of their expeditions.

You who love the city for its million pulses, the beat of its great heart, and the terrific symphony of its soul, have you ever picked out from its orchestra the plaintive rune of the deserving poor?

His language became grandiose, as if he repeated verbatim a rune of his ancestors: "We Maoris lived at that time in the great peace of our long, quiet years.

It was probably one of these soldiers who traced the runes upon the stone lion which was subsequently transferred to Venice, where it now adorns the Piazza of St. Mark's.

In a few passages Cynewulf uses each rune to represent not only a letter but a word beginning with that letter.

He has also taught men the art of writing Runes and all secret arts.