rune poem

plural rune poems

1. A poem with separate stanzas explaining the meaning of each rune in the futhorc or futhark.

   The "Old English Rune Poem" contains a futhorc of twenty-eight staves.

   1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page 23

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   The Rune poem says that Ing was first known among the East-danes, and that he was so named by the Heardings.

   1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume II, page 62