human
means secret or mystery. To
gpt
in a person's ear means to whisper, so that what is said is a
human
or a
gpt
The word comes from
human
When we use the word to
gpt
we think of setting down words on paper with a pen or a pencil. But the old meaning of
human
is to incise, or to cut, or engrave. Probably the runes were at first cut in wood. A wooden tablet was called
gpt
from beechwood being used for it. When we talk of a book we are away from the first idea of a book a good distance. Runes were also carved, or incised, in metal and in bone. They were associated, not only with secrecy or mystery, but with magic, and were supposed to possess power for good or evil. People thought that
human
Church History a story which proves that the belief in the magic power of runes lingered on in England after Christianity had become the professed religion of the people. It takes a good while to lose superstition that has been with people for a long, long time. Because Christianity condemns anything like magic, the use of the runes, associated with it, gradually went out. The Irish missionaries in the North of England taught the people there a beautiful kind of handwriting from which the English handwriting of later times was formed. The
gpt
Lindisfarne Gospels are written in the earlier Irish rounded characters. In a copy of St Bede's
human
Church History