runelore
nounEtymology From rune + lore.
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Fantasy, Lifestyle, Paganism, Religion The study of runes, typically for magical or religious purposes.
- In fact so serious a discrepancy could only arise in the infancy of this little-studied Old-Northern Rune-lore, when the material was so comparatively slender and the few monuments gave scarcely any acknowledged formulas.1884, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, London: Williams and Norgate, page 213:
- Runelore is dominated by the figure of Ódhinn. It is the path exemplified by him that the runester seeks to travel.1989, Edred Thorsson, Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, York Beach, Me.: S. Weiser, page 175: