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Con_Stripes 
"Good. You're getting the hang of this." He noticed the boy was holding his hand a bit oddly. "See me after class, I can show you a few wand grips that you'll find more effective if you like."
"Those are some good suggestions and reasons. Practice carving them in your piece of practice wood now, with the Intaglio spell we have been working on."
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?".
Raven say "
Yes Professor, I will" he say it happily
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XxPandoraXx Pandora raised her hand. "A Galdr is one of the Old Norse words for 'spell' or 'incantation'. It was a chant normally performed alongside certain rites back when the Scandinavian religion was Paganism. It was mastered by both men and women, and was chanted in gala, or falsetto."
Good thing this Claw know all, Raven grin, but still he amaze to her wisdom
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"Yes. Please be sure to raise your hand before answering."
"Much better with the carving and the spell." Truebridge approved and then nodded again. "Yes it is. Though it is only truly 'arcane' until you learn more about it."
"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?"
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Wow, amazing professor, nice examples" Raven exclaim
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Ivy Nienna Raising her hand, Ivory spoke a thoughtful expression on her face.
"The art of repetition." Her head bobbed in a little nod as she heard other people elaborate. "The repetition of different syllables and varieties of it versus the repetition of the rune. I would imagine it helps to better focus the intent. In both."
Yup, because it improved concentration...maybe.
Another answered, Raven is simply watching the discussion.