Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
1These are Runic letters; they are exactly like those of the manuscript of Snorre Turlleson.
2Gray's ode on the Descent of Odin contains an allusion to the use of Runic letters for incantation:
3For they talk of "the ancient runes of mighty Odin," that is, of the runic letters, the alphabetical writing.
4His eyes met a demented scrawl of runic letters and shapes-thelanguage of the Dragons-butwritten hastily, in a disorderly weave.
5He had chosen a spot just in front of the quaint old door, with the rude, runic letters, which the earliest sunbeams would touch.
6" Runic letters," said Rhodes.
Translations for runic letter