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| | Term 21: January-April 2009 Term Twenty-one: The Ghosts (Sept 2067 - June 2068) | |
02-06-2009, 05:12 AM
| | |  Lesson One - Origins of Ancient Runes
Alessia arrived at her classroom door and put a hand on the doorframe to hold herself up as she unlocked it. She was dressed in her black robes with the hood up. She entered the room and closed the door behind her, leaning back on it to breathe. Every breath she took hurt. The post transformationg was getting better and better.
She wrote her name, on the blackboard with her wand and proceeded to sit on the front of the desk. There needed to be a better way to handle the post transformation... she hated looking as if she aged... Oh well.
She opened the door to the class again, and as the first few students trickled in she said "Hello Class! For those who have yet to meet me, my name is Alessia Lupa. You may call me, Professor Lupa. I am going to wait a little while longer for more students to join the class before I start the lesson. So please, keep your chatting to a minimum." | |
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"I think, a rune is the symbol, and the runestone is the stone the rune is written on." Miles said simply. Wow, that was the first kinda easy question, asccording to him. | 
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Oops! Okay, her last answer hadn't been correct at all. Oh well, maybe her next one was going to be. Hopefully. Raising her hand hestitantly Nancy said, "The runestone is the...well, stone the runes are written upon, right? And well, the runes are the symbols used for that specific sort of writing. Or should I rather say engraving?"
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Difference between a rune and a runestone? Clifford dropped his head into his hands for a moment, trying to think, think, think. Hmmm. "A runestone is one o' those stoney things with the funny symbols on, isn't it?" He tried, raising his hand in the air. "So that's the runestone.. and the funny symbols actually on it, are the runes?"
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Camira was confused now. She quickly raised her hand. She could have sworn she read that the first inscription dates dated back to ca150 AD. "Professor. Sorry, I just have a quick question. I was under impression runic inscription dates back to ca 150 AD, having been found on a comb and that ca 400 is simply when the earliest known full sequential listing of the alphabet was found, but not the earliest inscription generally. Would you mind clarifying that please." Oh, why did she have to be so bad at runes. "Oh, and the difference between a rune and runestone: A runestone is a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock, while a rune refers to the actual characters of the alphabet."
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Anna jotted down a few quick notes about the question she hadn't been able to answer and then placed her quill back on her desktop. When the next question was asked, Anna's hand shot into the air. "Professor, a runestone is a raised stone with a runic inscription, while a rune is an actual symbol, or group of symbols, inscripted upon the stone," she said.
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"A runestone is the stone where the runes are .. written upon.." Evangeline started, after raising her hand in the air. Okay, this wasnt so bad. "And the runes are ... well, the symbols itself. Symbols with meanings.." | |
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A rune is the individual letter of the Runic alphabet. A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock.
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"Hmmmm..." Alessia turned to the Slytherin girl, "Miss Yaxley, the Vimose Comb was found on the island of Funen, in Denmark. It features the earliest known runic inscription (150 to 200 CE.) That is correct and you would have gotten points for it if I had asked that question. However I asked for the Futhark... the whole alphabet. The comb simply reads "Harja", probably the name of its male owner." She said with a wink to the girl.
She summoned her bag of runes pulling out her runes on stones, "Are these runestones?" 
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Mackenzie raised her hand. "Yes, Professor. Those are runestones." She was almost positive that she was right this time.
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Clifford watched curiously as the Professor summoned a bag and pulled out a bunch of runes on stones thingymabobs. "Well, they're runes... on stones." He stated with a confused blink, hand in the air. "So I'd say yeah? They are runestones?"
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Anna watched as the professor summoned a bag and then displayed its contents. She studied the stones for a moment, finally deciding that they were, indeed, runestones. She raised her hand and then said, "Yes, Professor. Those are runestones."
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"Professor," Copernicus was crossing his fingers and toes now. "I don't believe those are runestones according to those who use the term to describe raised runic stone markers that are left to note a site or achievement of some sort. However, I have heard others refer to their set of 24 runes as runestones. So I would say it depends on who your source is."
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"Yes professor, those are runestones." Here is an ancient runestone" 
"Here is a modern set of runestones."  "They both have runic symbols on them."
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Raising her hand tentatively once again Nancy said with a quick glance at the stones Professor Lupa had pulled out of her bag, "I'd actually say, no, these are no runestones because they are no raised stones?" It was more a guess actually but whatever...
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Camira listened to the professor. Ah, ok. That made sense. So she wasn't wrong, she just misunderstood the question. The price of attempting to multi-task, she supposed. "Oh, ok. Thank you professor. I just wanted to make sure my information wasn't wrong", she said politely.
She then turned her attention to the stones. They definitely weren't the traditional looking stones. At least not in her opinion. But they seemed to be Runestones nonetheless. "I'm pretty sure they are", she started after raising her hand. "But weren't the traditional runestones larger and....well...more stonelike?" Confusing confusing confusing. Maybe she should drop this class?
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Ana raised her hand "Yes, i think they can be considered runestones because they are stones with a runic inscription, despite they are not a raised stone" she said
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Originally Posted by Cassirin  "Professor," Copernicus was crossing his fingers and toes now. "I don't believe those are runestones according to those who use the term to describe raised runic stone markers that are left to note a site or achievement of some sort. However, I have heard others refer to their set of 24 runes as runestones. So I would say it depends on who your source is." Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Raising her hand tentatively once again Nancy said with a quick glance at the stones Professor Lupa had pulled out of her bag, "I'd actually say, no, these are no runestones because they are no raised stones?" It was more a guess actually but whatever... Quote:
Originally Posted by Amira With a C Camira listened to the professor. Ah, ok. That made sense. So she wasn't wrong, she just misunderstood the question. The price of attempting to multi-task, she supposed. "Oh, ok. Thank you professor. I just wanted to make sure my information wasn't wrong", she said politely.
She then turned her attention to the stones. They definitely weren't the traditional looking stones. At least not in her opinion. But they seemed to be Runestones nonetheless. "I'm pretty sure they are", she started after raising her hand. "But weren't the traditional runestones larger and....well...more stonelike?" Confusing confusing confusing. Maybe she should drop this class? "Two points." She said proud of the kids who answered correctly. "In my tenure teaching Runes, students make a common mistake. Diving rune pieces are called runes, never runestones. When they are inscribed on stones they are called rune stones, not Runestones. Runestones are monuments and grave markers, such as this one." She pointed at the Kylver stone.
"The stone is inscribed with the earliest known sequential listing of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark,"
She spun her wand with a flourish and poited at the blackboard. [f] u þ a r k g [w] h n i j p ï z s t b e m l ? d o
"What is this?" Alessia asked. "And please don't say the Futhark..."
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Lina looked around at the other students who had been answering. Until then she had been bored and just doodling... again. But she tilted her head to look at it curiously. "It looks like a pronunciation guide for the runes... like a romanized alphabet for many pictorial written languages."
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Ana raised her hand "Is it the Kylver stone, professor?" | |
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Raising her hand "Is it the Kylver stone?"
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Juniper raised her hand. "Is it a precursor to our alphabet?" she guessed. "It doesn't look exactly like our alphabet today, but... I can sort of see how it might have eventually become our alphabet." | |
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Aww man. He'd got it wrong? And there he was actually thinking he was gonna get that one right. A small pout crept to Clifford's lips as he listened to Professor Lupa's explanation and he quickly scribbled more notes - more ink splattering onto his nose.
He watched as she wrote some stuff on on the blackboard, then raised his hand again. This time, he honestly had no idea. Time for some guess work. "Is it an awesome, super secret spy code, Ma'am?" Hey, it coulda been!
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Once more, Evangeline had no idea of what the correct answer was, so, raising her hand, she decided to say the only thing she had actually remembered about that. "That's the alphabet that was found written in the Kylver Stone, Ma'am." Ah well.
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Huzzah! She'd gotten it right this time! With a small smirk on her lips Nancy raised her hand before answering with a snicker, "Futhark? No, I'm sorry, seriously, I think that's somekind of transliteration for the runes?" | |
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Camira tilted her head a bit as she tried to search her memory. Finally she raised her hand. "I believe those are the corresponding letters of the alphebet that we use for the runes found on the Kylver stone." Okay, hopefully that was intelligible. It made sense in her head, at least. "I'm guessing it helps us with pronunciation and memorization of meanings and whatnot." Really, what else could it be used for.
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