rune

Definition

  • noun: any of the characters in the alphabets that were used in ancient times by people of Northern Europe
  • noun: any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3d to the 13th centuries

Movie quotes

  • (..) beyond the Poison Sea... Valhalla. You will go there one day. Only great heroes have ever reached it. See what the runes say. Will this take me there? A woman will point the way. What will she look like? You will know her when you see her. (..)
    1958 The Vikings
  • (..) And you'll wish a thousand times... that you were dead. Kitala! You can't kill the slave. What do the runes say? If Odin willed that Eric should die... Thor's hammer would sound his death knell. But the sky is silent. (..)
    1958 The Vikings