![]() Elliott writes that the tribal leaders and advisers of Anglo-Saxon England called their consultations, which they held in secret meetings, "Runes". The influence of the runes on their time was undeniable. Nothing was left except the sagas, the scattered fragments of runic history and the rune itself ![]() With the rune-masters, their wisdom died as well. They were probably transformed from the Tarot and the Chinese Book of Changes and were used as the I Ching of the Vikings at that time. Some indications show that the early runes were not used so much for writing, but rather as magical signs, that means, they were used in magic and for divination (but there is no direct evidence of this). ![]() The original meaning of the word rune is "secret, or something hidden".
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