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rune poem en · NOUN

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1. A poem with separate stanzas explaining the meaning of each rune in the futhorc or futhark.
   • The "Old English Rune Poem" contains a futhorc of twenty-eight staves. 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Handbook of Esoteric Runology, page 23:
   • The Rune poem says that Ing was first known among the East-danes, and that he was so named by the Heardings. 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume II, page 62:

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