Old Finnish poems

Usage examples of runes.

If they did so, the runes have either failed or they need to be reforged, reinstated .

Why, say, come to think of it, the same runes are on your hands and arms, too!

Then he sang the runes and, with his other hand, repeated them in the air.

Kleitus’s gaze went to the runes tattooed on the back of Haplo’s hand.

The gleaming white marble exteriors, decorated with runes whose meanings no one now remembers, reflect back to us the light of our torches.

Hesitantly, almost reverently, he traced the pattern of the runes whose meaning and magic are now long forgotten.

According to the map, the ancients inscribed runes on the walls that could guide travelers, but—if so—their magic is now beyond our comprehension and use.

No, if these runes are to warn us of danger, that danger existed when this map was made.

He stared at the runes tattooed on his skin, saw, for the first time, that they were glowing a very faint blue.

And he […] with a pang of terror, that the runes tattooed on his hands […] and were gone!

The ship could take such punishment, guarded as it was by its runes, but not indefinitely.

The runes on his skin began to glow a faint blue, his body’s magic reacting instinctively to reduce his temperature to a safe level.

Alfred, he noticed, was humming beneath his breath, tracing runes in the air with his long-fingered hands and shuffling his feet slightly, his body swaying to the rhythm of the Sartan magic.

Rummaging in his supplies, he found a roll of plain linen cloth and wound it carefully around his hands and wrists, covering and concealing the runes tattooed on the skin.

No sigla adorned the grim, square-jawed, cleanshaven face, no runes appeared on the palms of the hands or the fingers or the soles of his feet.