rune-rister

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “? Swedish or Danish runerister”)

Noun

rune-rister (plural rune-risters)

1. A person skilled in carving or cutting runes.
   • 1870, George Stephens, “Some Account of Scandinavian Runic Stones which speak of Knut the Great, King of all the North”, in Archaeologia, London: Society of Antiquaries of London, page 106:

     But this was clearly there when the block was carved, for the Rune-rister has passed over this rough spot.

   • 1891, Ellen Russell Emerson, Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and Development of Art, Boston: Haughton, Mifflin & Co., page 168:

     In all inscriptions upon teh monuments of Yu, in China, in Persia, Hindostan, in the Mezeneene of Indian tent-dwellers, and in the helveristninger and Scandinavian rune risters, prominently appear those figures of the sun and moon marking the mask of the Alaskan and engraved upon the tomb of the ancient Dane.