Meaning

A runesmith; one skilled at carving and deciphering runes..

Definitions by Sense

1. A runesmith; one skilled at carving and deciphering runes.
2. One who has mastered the use of runes for magical, divinatory, or other esoteric uses.

Example Sentences

Without delay he got it taken out and removed to the Palace-yard, and afterwards commissioned the Rune-master Olaf Worm to visit and decipher it.

This great period of older English, set down by the rune-masters and then by medieval scribes using the roman alphabet, came to an end with the invention of printing in the late fifteenth century.

This excerpt from the histories of a contemporary of the Teutonic runemasters is, as far as can be determined, factual[.]

The Rune Masters of the Teutons and Vikings wore startling garb that made them easily recognizable. Feared, honored, welcomed, these shamans were familiar figures in tribal circles.

This stone, not attached to any grave and probably originally part of a ritual stone arrangement, is then charged by the force of the runemaster in this threatening aspect of "the malicious one" and "the raven."

Word Forms

• runemasters

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