Runesong
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Runesong is a noun meaning A poem or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation; magical or esoteric poetry.
Meaning
A poem or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation; magical or esoteric poetry.
Example Sentences
Odin himself says in his famous Rune-song in the Elder Edda: I know that I hung / On a wind-rocked tree.
Into this the four plunged, weaving with their runesongs fresh and original psychic patterns which had the effect of healing wounds.
Ere one verse was done / The deer in the pine wood forgot how to run. / Oh! the strong / Power of rune song! / Chased, they forgot how to run.
The old rune-songs may, however, still be heard on both sides of the border-land in Finnish and in Russian Carelia, as also on the shores of Lake Ladoga, in Ingria, and in the neighbourhood of Kajana in Osterbotten.
Word Forms
- runesongs
- rune-song
- rune song
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include singsong, song, chant, sing-song, painsong, roundelay.
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