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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes  Truebridge obligingly took the gloves and shrunk them so that they'd fit the young Ravenclaw better. He passed them back with a wink and then moved on to the next table. Quote:
Originally Posted by Con_Stripes Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?". Charisa smiled and clapped her hands together softly as she watched the gloves shrink. Wicked. "Thank you." She took them back from Professor Truebridge and slipped them on again.
Pointing her wand at the piece of wood was much easier business this time. "Intaglio thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz, thurisaz..." She spoke the incantation as she ran her wand over the wood, concentrating on her rune. And, what do ya know, it worked this time! The rune finished carving itself into the wood. Pleased with her work, although maybe the rune looked the slightest bit lopsided, Charisa put down her wand and turned her attention to the professor, who was asking a question.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes So.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?" Charisa's hand rose into the air. Her expression was contemplative as she ventured to give her answer.
"It's similar to the Intaglio spell because it involves a chant and the repetition of that chant," she said. "Which, I suppose, is meant to channel the focus of whatever purpose the chant serves?" Yep. Question mark ending.
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