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Originally Posted by
Con_Stripes 
"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?"
Once again, Sierra felt herself sinking down in her seat. That
sinking--it was becoming a habit of hers. Either that, or she seriously needed to start trying a
lot harder in her classes. Maybe Ancient Runes just wasn't for her after all. Maybe she should have waited another year or two...or five or ten.
Either way, she only halfway understood what the professor had been saying. She
sloooowly raised her hand, almost hesitant to even give the answer a go.
"I think--for me, at least--repeating the name of the rune over and over helped me really focus on what I was doing and what the rune meant. Maybe it's the same with the chant," she suggested.
Hopefully...