this may have been my first exposure to runes of any sort (more likely it was Fellowship of the Ring but I was reading Jules Verne at a pretty early age)
of all the rabbit holes I was expecting to stumble across while inquiring into Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth", I wasn't expecting to find a Kris Saknussem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Saknussemm
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/60116/kris-saknussemm/
He's been suspected of being the front for a collective, too. What ~Χαρά