runecraft
nounEtymology From rune + -craft. Compare Old English rūncræftiġ (“skilled in deciphering runes”).
1
Knowledge of runes; skill in deciphering runic characters.
2
Knowledge of, or skill in, the use of runes for esoteric and magical purposes.
- They were the keepers of starcraft, runecraft, lorecraft and wortcraft and they guided many through the darkness of the future and healed bodies and minds.1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, →ISBN, page 16: