The Runic Letters of the Manuscript of Snore Terlson

The professor amused a few moments over this series of characters, then raising his spectacles, he pronounced. These are runic letters. They are exactly like those of the manuscript of Snore Terlson. But, what on earth is their meaning? Runic letters appearing to my mind to be an invention of the learned to mystify this poor world. I was not sorry to see my uncle suffering the pangs of mystification. At least, so it seemed to me, judging from his fingers, which were beginning to work with terrible energy. It is certainly old I slander, he muttered between his teeth. He could speak fluently in the 2000 languages and 12,000 dialects