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Book 9. (27 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
10	314	We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are throw...
16	54	Religious rune stones are repainted by rune-priests on the vigil of the fest-season of Odin, which, on Gor, takes place in the fall.
4	54	The board has no Initiates, but there are corresponding pieces called rune-priests.
4	85	The Spring Equinox, incidentally, is also used for the New Year by the rune-priests of the North, who keep the calendars of Torvaldsland.
4	87	In the calendars of the rune-priests the year was 1,006.
6	433	"It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
11	4	On these stones, set in semicircular lines, like terraces, stood high men and minor jarls, and rune-priests, and the guard of Svein Blue Tooth.
12	19	In the crowd, too, in their white robes, were rune-priests.
13	48	"Your oath! Your oath!" had cried the horrified, startled rune-priests.
13	80	There were also considerations to the effect that the rune-priests would be distressed if the oaths were broken, and that the gods, too, might not look lightly upon such a violation of faith, and might, too, more seriously, evidence their displeasure by such tokens as bli...
16	55	If the stones were not tended, either by farmers on whose lands they lie, or by villagers in whose locales they lie, or by rune-priests, in a few years, the paint would be gone, leaving only the plain stone.
3	130	"Yes!" "Five nights from this night," said Ivar Forkbeard, "on the skerry of Einar—by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".
3	379	It seemed Aelgifu, proud and rich, would go barefoot, like a peasant wench or a stripped bondmaid, by the will of Ivar Forkbeard, until her ransom was paid on the skerry of Einar five nights from this night, by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark.
4	3	"We are one day's rowing," said he, "from the skerry of Einar and the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".
5	217	It was there, at the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark, that Ivar Forkbeard would receive her ransom.
5	235	Too, against the sky, I could see the tall rune-stone, looking like a needle against the stars, which forms the Torvaldsmark.
12	80	It was held in the hands of the high rune-priest of the Thing.
13	54	The high rune-priest of the Thing interposed himself between the violent Blue Tooth and the Forkbeard, who was, innocently, regarding cloud formations.
13	55	The rune-priest held up the heavy, golden ring of Thor, the temple ring itself, stained in the blood of the sacrificial ox.
13	85	The high rune-priest lifted the sacred temple ring.
13	92	The high rune-priest lowered the temple ring.
16	12	There was carving in the passage, rune letterings and pictographs, in linear borders.
16	51	Many of the columns carved, with painted surfaces, on the walls, reminded me of rune stones.
16	56	The most famous rune stone in the north is that on Einar's Skerry, which marks the northland's southern border.
16	58	"I am not a rune-priest," he said.
16	60	I knew him able to read some rune markings.
16	63	He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader.

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
32	556	At a given point, perhaps determined by their priests or chiefs, for no reason that is clear to us, the population, it seemed, had abandoned the city, marching away into the jungles.

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	927	The calendars are kept by rune-priests.
1	925	I went to Torvaldsland in the rune Year 1,006.

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	67	Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a l...

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
12	241	What are the babblings of an entranced sibyl, moaning and swaying on her tripod, drunk with fumes, without the enlightening interpretations of astute priests? I then understood better why Sumomo was present.