runologistn.

1836 J. Bosworth Scand. Lit. 7 It was reserved for the great Archaeologist and Runologist Finn Magnusen, after a personal inspection of the inscription on the spot, to interpret it in its entire state.

1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) i. 247 These celebrated Runologists..arrived at the same interpretation of the characters.

1894 Academy Oct. 258/3 The veteran runologist has here given a..catalogue of the more important runic inscriptions.

1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. iii. 76 Every leading runologist of Scandinavia and Germany who has deigned to examine the inscription has called it a clumsy forgery.

1990 Antiquaries Jrnl. 70 140/1 Rollason gives a discredited interpretation of the runic inscription on the Brunswick casket some credence, and it is odd that his footnote reference here is to an art-historian not to a runologist.