Meanings
nounrunelore (uncountable)
- uncountablefantasyThe study of runes, typically for magical or religious purposes.
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 1751 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Celtic*rūnābor.?
- Proto-Germanic*rūnō
- Proto-Germanic*rūnǭ
- Proto-Norseᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo)
- Old Norserún
- Englishrune
- Proto-Indo-European*leys-
- Proto-Indo-European*(le-)lóys-e
- Proto-Germanic*lizaną
- Proto-Germanic*laizijaną
- Proto-Germanic*laizō
- Proto-West Germanic*laiʀu
- Old Englishlār
- Middle Englishlore
- Englishlore
- Englishrunelore
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APA
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