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unusual facts about rune



6th SS Mountain Division Nord

The "Hagelrune", literally, "Hail Rune a stylized Life/Death rune, like a combined "x" and "i;"

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

The verse given as Patrick's Rune is L'Engle's adaptation of an authentic medieval prayer, "Saint Patrick's Breastplate", which in turn is a variation on the Lorica of Saint Patrick.

Algiz

The only known instance where the rune does take the value of Latin x in epigraphy is the spelling of rex "king" on the interlace coin dies of king Beonna (mid 8th century).

Ardre image stones

The Ardre image stones are a collection of ten rune and image stones, dated to the 8th to 11th centuries, that were discovered at a church in Ardre, which is about four kilometers north of Stånga, Gotland County, Sweden.

Arnljot

The opera consists of three parts and the historical foundation of the opera is the character Arnljot Gelline that is mentioned in Snorri Sturluson saga about Olav Haraldsson (den Helige, Rex perpetuus Norvegiae) and the writings on Frösöstenen, the rune stone that is placed on Frösön.

Artificial Funk

It was made up of Rune Reilly Kølsch (known as Rune RK and Enur) and his half brother Johannes Torpe.

Bamse

In October 2006, forty years after Bamse was created, Ola Andréasson, the son of creator Rune Andréasson announced that an animated feature film will be made, featuring better animation, a full voice cast and having a budget of SEK 25 million.

Fehu

The rune derives from the unattested but reconstructed Proto-Germanic *fehu in the Elder Futhark alphabet, with the original meaning of "money, cattle, wealth".

Such correspondence between all rune poems and the Gothic letter name, as well, is uncommon, and gives the reconstructed name of the Old Futhark a high degree of certainty.

Friedrich Marby

There was a school of rune scholars who interpreted the Eddas completely in anti-Semitic fashion, but Alan Baker in his book Invisible Eagle singles out Marby as one of the exceptions.

Jim Pooley

In the books The Brightonomicon and Retromancer- set in Pooley's teenage years- Jim collaborated with Hugo Rune, initially using the name Rizla due to his current state of amnesia and later using it simply because Rune refers to him as such, against the evil plans of Rune's foe Count Otto Black.

Like an Angel Passing Through My Room

The designer of the album sleeve for The Visitors, Rune Söderqvist, was partly inspired by this song's theme when he conceived the idea of photographing the group standing before Julius Kronberg's painting of an angelic-looking Eros.

Malbry

Malbry is also the name of Maddy's home village in Harris' Rune books, Runemarks and Runelight.

Medieval runes

In the oldest preserved manuscript of the Poetic Edda from 1270, and which is written with the Latin alphabet, the m is used as a conceptual rune meaning "man" and in Hávamál it appears 43 times.

Old Permic alphabet

The alphabet derived from Cyrillic and Greek, and Komi tribal signs, the latter being similar in the appearance to runes or siglas poveiras, because they were created by incisions, rather than by usual writing.

Östergötland Runic Inscription 179

In the text, the runes for the initial vowels in Old Norse words for æftiR ("after") and the name Æskel were replaced by a Peter V. Brett

The Painted Man (2008) (US title The Warded Man; 2009)(FR title L'Homme-Rune; 2009)

Rune Johansson

Rune Arnold Georg Johansson (August 23, 1920 – December 30, 1998) was a Swedish sportsperson who played bandy, football, handball, ice hockey, and competed in track and field.

Rune Klan

Author Joshua Jay wrote Rune's World, published by Vanishing Inc.

Rune Malterud

Rune Malterud (born January 1, 1981) is a Norwegian polar explorer and physiotherapist.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Players will be required to scavenge towns and villages for items such as food and weapons to help them survive whilst collecting rune stones in order to escape the island.

The writing on the wall

In the novel City of Ashes, part of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, Clary uses her stele to write a rune on Valentine's boat.

Troy Harley

The song was recorded at Henson Studios and was co-written by Zac Maloy and Rune Goldberg, who was responsible for co-producing songs for artists such as Adam Lambert, Chris Daughtry, and Kris Allen.


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