（古代北欧人使用的）如尼字母，如尼文；神秘的记号；有魔力的符号 ( rune 在 剑桥英语-中文（简体）词典 的翻译 © Cambridge University Press) If one accepts this conclusion, as a majority of readers have done, then the rune -stick, personified as a messenger, is attributed human voice through the rhetorical device of prosopopoeia. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus Knowledge of the conventional rune names is indeed often required, but that knowledge may or may not be helpful at a particular point. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus A quasi-pagan element is introduced that is in keeping with the magical qualities popularly associated with runes. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus This is entirely and obviously absurd, because it rune against the well-known scientific principle of the distribution of heredity. 来自

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To follow this line of thought, we are equally free to imagine that the woman could recognize the runes because she has seen them before. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus