rune-rister

plural rune-risters

1. A person skilled in carving or cutting runes.

   But this was clearly there when the block was carved, for the Rune-rister has passed over this rough spot.

   1870, George Stephens, “Some Account of Scandinavian Runic Stones which speak of Knut the Great, King of all the North”, in Archaeologia, London: Society of Antiquaries of London, page 106

   1 more example

   In all inscriptions upon teh monuments of Yu, in China, in Persia, Hindostan, in the Mezeneene of Indian tent-dwellers, and in the helveristninger and Scandinavian rune risters, prominently appear those figures of the sun and moon marking the mask of the Alaskan and engraved upon the tomb of the ancient Dane.

   1891, Ellen Russell Emerson, Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art, Boston: Haughton, Mifflin & Co., page 168