Meet the Rune Master Those who used them for magic took the supernatural powers of the runes seriously. As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man carve runes to cast a spell, save first he learns to ...

Holger Rune won the 2024 Nordic Battle after beating Casper Ruud not once but twice in their match in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism ... attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the ...