Nowhere is this more evident than the so-called “Odin runes,” an arcane set of symbols strewn around digital 9th-century England. They no doubt house an underlying meaning.

Kari Tauring's book explores the 16 "younger" runes, finding their evolved shapes, sounds, and meanings reflected cultural ...

Runes are symbols that early tribes in northern Europe used to communicate in writing. Odin was one of the main gods in Norse mythology and was frequently associated with war as well as poetry.