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runes

(1)
Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close.

Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.

runes

(2)
Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).
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The E-book version of The Book of Runes is available at all fine E-book purveyors including Kindle for Amazon, iBookstore, Nook for Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Google Books.
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"The language and factual information of runic inscriptions are fairly well researched, but we know little about how Viking Age people read a rune stone," said Marco Bianchi at the Department of Scandinavian Languages.
WHEN the Ancient Vikings turned to the runes it was to gain insight into matters of love, death, war and peace.
Read both numbers below to discover what the mystic runes have in store for you.
Because the number of runic finds is increasing all the time, any individual theory (and on the evidence of Page's piece, and others here, scholarly consensus is notably rare in the field) about the interpretation and distribution of runic inscriptions may suddenly be overtaken by contrary evidence (this is especially likely given that, as Derolez has pointed out, extant Anglo-Saxon runes may represent no more than 1 per cent of the inscriptions actually carved).
Harris spins a skein of clever word play, light humour and intoxicating fantasy which wraps the reader up in cantrips, runes and glams.
Scholars of the early Germanic script, and of texts written in it, examine the runic artefacts with the older runes, runic writing confronted with Latin literacy and Christianization, chronology and typology versus regional variation, methodology, and new challenges in the field.
An experienced poet whose work has appeared in such venues as "Barrow Street", "The North American Review", "Rhino", "Runes", and numerous other journals, Curtis Bauer's poetry assembled in Fence Line provides the reader with a full spectrum sampling of Curtis Bauer's talent and his unique poetic voice.
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