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As soon as you step through the fifth floor and head towards the classroom, you find the professor standing just outside the door cradling the top of his cane with his hands. His usual and signature relaxed smile on his face as he waits for the students to file into the room.
The classroom is the ordinary Ancient Runes classroom, it's clean, it's neat, and there are hardly anything interesting in there. The small dais, that has the professor's big desk, faces three rows of desks and a blackboard is hung up on the wall behind it. There are name tags perched up on each desk, some have names already there with updated years, and others are empty for the new students to fill.
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For new students:
Please write your name and year on the name tag and tap it with your wand to make it into a desk name tag.
For returning students:
Sit at the desk with your name tag already set on top.
Everyone:
Keep your voices down until the lesson starts.
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Sander listened as the other students provided the answers to the question Professor Botros had posed. They had covered almost every aspect of the question, but a Sander still continued to think of another aspect that hadn't been mentioned yet. He tried to remember what he knew about another runic alphabet not mentioned yet.
When he did, he raised his hand and answered.
"Even though the Elder Futhark now contains 24 runes, there was a point in time when it was reduced to 16. " Sander revealed to the class.
"Then somewhere between 400 and 600 AD, a variant of the Futhark was formed. Three Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, invaded Britain. They brought the runes with them. Some of the forms of the runes were changed and changes in their language led to nine runes being added to the alphabet. This was to compensate for the extra sounds, and several runes were given different corresponding letters. This alphabet, expanded to 33 symbols, has become known as the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. " Sander finished his answer.
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Hmm. The Elder Futhark as an actual language was really an interesting topic, and Mo looked on with bright eyes as his classmates spoke. Technically speaking, they made him a little uncomfortable, and Mo considered carefully what it was that was bothering him before speaking.
He raised his hand. "Professor, I know that sometimes we practice translating words from our alphabet into the Elder Futhark script. From a literal standpoint, that's not really 'translating'. That's actually 'transcription'. The words are still in English, although written with a different script, and we shouldn't be led to believe that we are somehow speaking the language of the Norse gods." Just so they were all being precise.
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Sander listened as the other students provided the answers to the question Professor Botros had posed. They had covered almost every aspect of the question, but a Sander still continued to think of another aspect that hadn't been mentioned yet. He tried to remember what he knew about another runic alphabet not mentioned yet.
When he did, he raised his hand and answered.
"Even though the Elder Futhark now contains 24 runes, there was a point in time when it was reduced to 16. " Sander revealed to the class.
West looked at that kid from the platform as he spoke and then added, "You're talking about the Younger Futhark, its not the same as the Elder Futhark... and its rubbish for transcribing English since it ignores minimal pairs - words what have only one sound different- and doesn't allow for recording all the phonetic content of English or Old Norse." Helpful over here, see? But it definitely wasn't actually the Elder Futhark when it was the sixteen. The Elder Futhark itself always contained what it now contained.
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West looked at that kid from the platform as he spoke and then added, "You're talking about the Younger Futhark, its not the same as the Elder Futhark... and its rubbish for transcribing English since it ignores minimal pairs - words what have only one sound different- and doesn't allow for recording all the phonetic content of English or Old Norse." Helpful over here, see? But it definitely wasn't actually the Elder Futhark when it was the sixteen. The Elder Futhark itself always contained what it now contained.
"Than I stand corrected although that's not what I read in book I found in the library. But again, I may have misinterpreted what I read," Sander shrugged. He never professed to be a heinous at Ancient Runes.
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"Nauthiz is more about overcoming a distress, its Galdr gives you the strength to have that invincible magical will, yes, but not so much for protection as you mentioned. Unless that will to summon the magic makes it easier for you to create a magical shield." Now the chanting part. "naudhiz naudhiz naudhiz.. n n n n n n n n n.. nu na nu ne no.. nudh nadh hudh nedh niodh.. nut nat nit net not.. un an in en on.. n n n n n n n n n."
"We've talked lengthly about the runes as magic symbols, I'd like us to move to talking about runes as characters in an alphabet. Who can tell me anything they know about runic alphabets?" Anything at all. [/indent] ooc: - there is one more question after this and then we're wrapping it up!
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Tessa winced internally, she had missed the mark on that question. However, she made a few notes in her book and the problem was easily corrected. She would just have to look those notes over a little more closely... or at least, that's what she said now. Most likely she would get distracted, as she was likely to do.
Anyway, next question.
Tessa raised her hand. "The alphabet received its name from the names of the first six runes. It is Futhark or Futhorc, which includes the runes Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz, Ansuz, Raido, and Kenaz," she explained. She hoped that was enough and looked to her book to see if there was anything else that should be added.
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Botros was so funny, clapping and all. Shoulda waved his cane to the chanting, too.
"We study 'em. In this class." Did that count as something? Of course Alice would have given the professor a proper answer if she'd been done with her notes, but she wasn't. Ella said Galdr meant incantation? That was scrawled down by her quill, along with everything else her classmates said that she found of any importance.
Adjusting her inkwell, she waited for the next question to be posed. Hopefully it was one interesting enough to bother answering, yeah?
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Leah had no idea what Galdrs were, so she quietly listened for a moment, and when the next question was up she opened her mouth. "The Elder Futhark that we talked about earlier is a type of Runic alphabets, isn't it?" Leah asked. "Very ancient. Like in the 7th centuries." What century was this? Oh yes, the 21st.
"The Elder Futhark is the oldest runic alphabet known to us, it is derived from the Old Italic they say, and two alphabets were derived from it later." Botros nodded and the blackboard started writing those information. "The general agreement dates the creation of the first runic alphabet to roughly the 1st century. Early estimates include the 1st century BC, and late estimates push the date into the 2nd century."
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Ian thought he could take a shot at this one. He raised his hand. sir. I would think that it was important to the early users of the alphabets to have a common set of characters that provided meaning to them. it wasn't much! but it was the best the second year student could come up with.
"Runes are set of characters that, in an alphabet, can make words, sentences and whole paragraphs." He nodded, clarifying what the boy was trying to say.
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But now this other question coming from the elderly man and Huxley raised a lethargic hand in reply "They were used to mark gravestones and tombs, usually indicating who was buried there and anything noteworthy about them or the clan they belonged to, it also says whoever it was that did the carvings or commissioned for the tombstone to be raised."
"Fantastic, yes. This is one of the usages of runic alphabets." He gave the girl a wide smile, happy to hear something different.
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Galdrs were fun. West actually had no problem doing them in front of people if necessary... he'd rather know how to make the magic happen than get all embarrassed about it after all. Next question?
Something he knew about runic alpha... well. West put his hand up. "Even though we refer to it as a runic alphabet, technically runes aren't alphabets at all, though the Elder Futhark, is actually named in much the same way as what we call 'the alphabet', since F-u-th-a-r-k are the first runes in order, kind of like how Alpha and Beta are the first letters in the Greek Alphabet." Futhark. Alphabet. See? That was how stuff got named.
Anyways. That was enough. There was plenty to say, plenty of things that could be good answers to that question, but West just stuck with that.
Botros nodded, "Runic alphabets aren't alphabets in the sense that people spoke runes. Runes characters have no specific pronunciation in which we could use in speech. For example, if I were to say my name in Elder Futhark, it'll still sound like Botros." He paused to allow the students to wrap their minds around this little but important information. "Runic alphabets are writing systems." That was the summary.
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Lucas made a face, uh, wasn't this the question from before?
"It's Anglo-saxon alphabet called fuþorc" Did he pronounce that right? He hoped so.
Hmm. "One of the old runic alphabets is Anglo-Saxon, yes. Those runes were used probably from the 5th century AD until about the 10th century, it's a child system of the Elder Futhark. It contains all 24 runes from the parent alphabet in addition to 5 more. But the Anglo-Saxon disappeared after the Norman conquest." Botros added.
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Ohhh, Delilah had been wrong. This class was quite interesting and it looked like she had done a decent job trying to answer questions so far. And it helped that the professor was nice and helpful, too.
Um. Um. She gave the question some thought before finally answering the question. She raised her hand and said, "Runic alphabets can be read both ways as in from left to right as well as from right to left.."
"Yes, correct." A smile and a nod.
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Another textbook question. Good, he probably could answer this one. "I read something about Runa meaning whisper or secret" was that good cause that was one of the only things he knew. "So these stick figures are actually code language?"
"Very close. They can be used as codes since writing in runes have so many loose rules, so-to-speak."
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What was with all of the chanting? They weren't actually invoking any runes right now, so why chant? It seemed a bit pointless. And they were back to questions Gwen couldn't answer. There is more than one?" At least she thought there was. And that was literally all she knew about runic alphabets. "Also you can spell your name with runes." He had done that at the beginning of class, no? Gwen might have to look up how to spell her own name in runes. On second thought, she might convince someone else to look it up, then just tell her. All that reading stuff hurt her brain.
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Errr, Lux could not really remember much about the Runic alphabet. But she did know that you could spell your name in different alphabets, granted some were more difficult to work with than others. Raising her hand, she said, "You can spell your name out in Runes."
Botros nodded at them both. "Yes, like I wrote my name in the beginning of class."
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So uhm... Astrid slowly raised her hand. "There's the Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and the Younger Futhark." Three out of many runic alphabets, see? Professor Botros did ask for anything they knew about runic alphabets so there was her answer. Heh. She tried her best anyway. Wasn't that what counts the most?
"Indeed. We've talked about the first two, now the Younger Futhark gradually evolved from the Elder Futhark over a period of many years and was stabilized by about 800 A.D., the beginning of the Viking Age."
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What did she know about runic alphabets...? Almost nothing, but not enough to have her sitting quietly and having nothing to contribute to the discussion they were having in class. Lex thought over her answer before shooting her hand up to give the next response. "They're believed to have Scanidnavian origins mostly and were once affliated with the Vikings, right?" Right? Actually no. She had no idea how right she was being here. Her memory of runes and Vikings was rather limited but they made a good fit in her mind...hence her answer.
"Right, yes. Specially the Younger Futhark alphabet." As he just mentioned.
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"When you write with runes, the words aren't divided up like we're used to with spaces between them. Dots are sometimes used, though, to help separate the words. Pretty helpful, especially when you're trying to decode a message." And n'aww, now Ella was remembering the message Toby had written her. Big smiles for him just cause.
"Very good, yes. When we write in runes, we don't have to leave spaces between words or paragraphs. However, in some modern transcripts, we found that one dot could be used to separate words and two dots to separate sentences." He preferred the original, old-fashioned way.
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*Romulus felt a little bad that he wasn't able to chant the rune. But he just needed practice. Right? Now here was a question he knew. Roms hand shot up as he answered that professor.*
"The runic alphabet was used by muggle as well as witches and wizards. The muggles later used it to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. So in a way it helped form the English we speak today."
"Yes, the alphabet was used by both." Unlike the magical side.
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Remembering something he had made a small note on before, Alec raised his hand in the air, his eyes on Botros. "It was around from... the third to the... thirteenth? Yeah, the third to the thirteenth centuries." ... Pause. "And then they were replaced by the Roman alphabet." Nodnod.
[indent]"Close. The Elder Futhark was dated back to the second century. So, it was as so." He turned and started writing on the blackboard.
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Common Runic Alphabets (dates)
Elder Futhark: 2nd to 8th centuries.
Anglo- Saxon: 5th to 11th centuries.
Younger Futhark: 9th to 11th centuries.
Medieval runes: 12th to 15th centuries.
Dalecarlian runes: 16th to 19th centuries.
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Caleb raised his hand. THIS he at least knew a little something about! "Well you can easily translate a lot of words into the runic alphabet. Some of them might be tricky since some of the runes stand for two letters, or a sound instead of just a letter, but usually it's pretty easy and super cool seeing your name in a different alphabet!" he said. Would that be their homework? PLEASE LET THAT BE THEIR HOMEWORK!
"You can transcript them, yes." He nodded at the young boy with a big smile. "We're going to see the equivalent runes to the English letters in a bit."
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"The lines of the runes in Elder Futhark are all either diagonal or horizontal, and they're all straight lines," he began, lowering his hand again and fiddling with the feathered end of his quill as it stood in his inkpot. "That way they're all easier to carve, AND when they're carved in wood you can angle it so there aren't any lines that go with the grain, 'cause then it might close over or something as the wood changes over time, or be hard to read and... maybe the rune wouldn't work so well. Like its magic and stuff. Maybe."
Maybe.
Botros clapped for Tempus yet again, third time in a row. The boy was on a roll today. "Great input, mister Tempus. That is the reason why runes are generally in angular shapes like that. Easier to carve, and better way to preserve the transcripts on the wood."
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"Well, sometimes the runic inscriptions were used for personal letters, greetings to friends, political and non political proposals, and sometimes even love letters.." She answered, smiling again at the thought of older times. Everything was so much more romantic then..
Botros laughed heartily at the girl's answer. "That's very creative thinking." But... not really. "Runic inscriptions are mainly found on valuable artifacts, mysterious hidden caves where witchcraft was being secretly practiced, boulders and stones, tombstones." Nodnod.
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The alphabet itself, now that was something Adrienne didn't often think about. "Even though the runes were around, them put together as an alphabet wasn't actually a thing until, uh," she closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair for a moment, trying to remember. "The year 200. CE, that is." She'd always preferred using CE and BCE instead of AD and BC, because everything being based around religion had always bothered her.
Botros nodded, having covered this in former question.
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Runic alphabets. Yes. Adi knew a bit about these. He raised a hand. "Professor, the Elder Futhark was used in the second to eight centuries. The Anglo-Frisian was used during the fifth to the eleventh centuries.'' Er. That was all. His brain couldn't remember anymore centuries for more alphabets.
More nodding. Yes, correct. Botros turned to the blackboard and made a simple diagram for it.
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Asher was on a small steak of being right in this lesson now maybe he actually knew more than he realized. Just maybe. He listened to the professor again. He raised his hand after a little bit of thinking about it. And hearing others. "There are twenty-four runes divided out into three groups called Etts "
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Beverly watched as professor Botros chanted for Algiz. She absentmindedly mimicked him by mouthing it, and did her best to write it down for future reference.
The questions still kept coming. This time from Botros himself. Bev raised her hand. This was an easy answer, yeah? "The Elder Futhark is made up of twenty-four staves, and they are commonly divided into three groups of eight; also referred as aetts. I'm certain the aetts are named after Freyja, Hagal and Tiw." That's what her worn out text book said.
Hand down. Done.
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Marigold had not participated much or AT ALL this class. She had been waaaaay too busy taking notes. But she could actually answer this question!
"The alphabet has 24 runes, right?" she said confidently.
She was going to need a tutor at this rate.
"In Elder Furthark, there are twenty four runes divided into three groups, yes, correct. They're called Aetts. Each Aett is associated with a Norse god, or a concept."
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"Even though the Elder Futhark now contains 24 runes, there was a point in time when it was reduced to 16. " Sander revealed to the class.
"Then somewhere between 400 and 600 AD, a variant of the Futhark was formed. Three Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, invaded Britain. They brought the runes with them. Some of the forms of the runes were changed and changes in their language led to nine runes being added to the alphabet. This was to compensate for the extra sounds, and several runes were given different corresponding letters. This alphabet, expanded to 33 symbols, has become known as the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. " Sander finished his answer.
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West looked at that kid from the platform as he spoke and then added, "You're talking about the Younger Futhark, its not the same as the Elder Futhark... and its rubbish for transcribing English since it ignores minimal pairs - words what have only one sound different- and doesn't allow for recording all the phonetic content of English or Old Norse." Helpful over here, see? But it definitely wasn't actually the Elder Futhark when it was the sixteen. The Elder Futhark itself always contained what it now contained.
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"Than I stand corrected although that's not what I read in book I found in the library. But again, I may have misinterpreted what I read," Sander shrugged. He never professed to be a heinous at Ancient Runes.
... Botros nodded at the two of them. Glad that the students are interacting with each other and exchanging information. "You can refer to your textbook for the facts we're going with in class." He smiled at the new boy.
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He raised his hand. "Professor, I know that sometimes we practice translating words from our alphabet into the Elder Futhark script. From a literal standpoint, that's not really 'translating'. That's actually 'transcription'. The words are still in English, although written with a different script, and we shouldn't be led to believe that we are somehow speaking the language of the Norse gods." Just so they were all being precise.
Botros nodded at Marco. "Yes, exactly. So Runic alphabets are basically a writing system, like I said earlier. There are no runic words to which we can translate to." Pause. "While transcripting from English to any runic alphabets, there are essential three rules to follow."
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Write in Runes
For beginners
Steps: 1. Write the word in phonetic form:
Ex: HAPPY = HAPY // THE = TH.
2. Replace each letter with the suitable rune:
- Pay attention to the W, J, TH, Z, X, I and NG sounds.
3. Separate words with one dot, and sentences with two dots.
Rune name - Phonetic equivalent
Fehu.....................F
Uruz......................U
Thurisaz................TH
Ansuz....................A
Raidho...................R
Kenaz.......C (hard), K
Gebo.....................G
Wunjo................V, W
Hagalaz..................H
Nauthiz...................N
Isa................I (short)
Jera.....................J, Y
Eihwaz............I (long)
Perthro...................P
Algiz...................Z, X
Sowilo........C (soft), S
Tiewaz...................T
Berkana..................B
Ehwaz....................E
Mannaz..................M
Laguz.....................L
Ingwaz.................NG
Dagaz.....................D
Othala....................O
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Tessa raised her hand. "The alphabet received its name from the names of the first six runes. It is Futhark or Futhorc, which includes the runes Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz, Ansuz, Raido, and Kenaz," she explained. She hoped that was enough and looked to her book to see if there was anything else that should be added.
"Exactly, yes. Great answer." He smiled at the Gryffindor encouragingly.
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Botros was so funny, clapping and all. Shoulda waved his cane to the chanting, too.
"We study 'em. In this class." Did that count as something? Of course Alice would have given the professor a proper answer if she'd been done with her notes, but she wasn't. Ella said Galdr meant incantation? That was scrawled down by her quill, along with everything else her classmates said that she found of any importance.
Adjusting her inkwell, she waited for the next question to be posed. Hopefully it was one interesting enough to bother answering, yeah?
... right. Botros gave the Gryffindor captain an unimpressed look before motioning for her to come over. "Very inspiring. Why don't you come out here, Captain, and help us study them. In this class." Mhmmmmmmm. He was going to rat her out to Sherman. Giving sassy answers in class, she was obviously bored by now but this was no excuse.
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... right. Botros gave the Gryffindor captain an unimpressed look before motioning for her to come over. "Very inspiring. Why don't you come out here, Captain, and help us study them. In this class." Mhmmmmmmm. He was going to rat her out to Sherman. Giving sassy answers in class, she was obviously bored by now but this was no excuse.
She glanced up in surprise and a bit of relief when Botros called on her, even with the unimpressed look accompanying his words. Her? Really?
"Sir, yes, sir." He got a mock salute in answer to his question before the beaming seventh year hopped out of her seat and onto the dais. Yep, SHE was a top student, everyone. Alice Fischer, Gryffindor Captain. Indeed. Did they see?
Except... what was she meant to ask? "Uh... can you guys... write your name in runes?" They had help from the board and all.
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She glanced up in surprise and a bit of relief when Botros called on her, even with the unimpressed look accompanying his words. Her? Really?
"Sir, yes, sir." He got a mock salute in answer to his question before the beaming seventh year hopped out of her seat and onto the dais. Yep, SHE was a top student, everyone. Alice Fischer, Gryffindor Captain. Indeed. Did they see?
Except... what was she meant to ask? "Uh... can you guys... write your name in runes?" They had help from the board and all.
That was a nice happy ending to today's class. Botros nodded at her approvingly. "You may write your name on the board, Captain. And if you explain why you're using each rune, it'll be grand." Mhmm.
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She glanced up in surprise and a bit of relief when Botros called on her, even with the unimpressed look accompanying his words. Her? Really?
"Sir, yes, sir." He got a mock salute in answer to his question before the beaming seventh year hopped out of her seat and onto the dais. Yep, SHE was a top student, everyone. Alice Fischer, Gryffindor Captain. Indeed. Did they see?
Except... what was she meant to ask? "Uh... can you guys... write your name in runes?" They had help from the board and all.
Well of course he could. Did the girlfriend know that he learned how to do that right along with writing his name in English? Cos he did.
He wrote Wunjo, Ehwaz, Sowilo, Tiewaz -a dot- then Sowilo, Kenaz, Ansuz, Nauthiz, Laguiz, Ansuz, Nauthiz, -a dot- Othala, Dagaz, Ehwaz, Sowilo, and finally Ansuz. For West Scanlan Odessa... with the c in his middle name sounding like a K, and the double S in his last name cut down to a single Sowilo. He smiled up at her.
Brows.
Did she want to see and give him kisses for a job well done?
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Write her name in runes? That shouldn't be too hard, given that the board basically explained the whole thing. Adrienne grabbed a quill and piece of parchment to get ready to do so. So first she had to write it phonetically...
AHDRIEHN
A bit weird looking, but it would do. So that made her name read Ansuz-Hagalaz-Dagaz-Raidho-Eihwaz-Ehwaz-Hagalaz-Nauthiz. She took a moment to write it out on her parchment neatly, then sat back and looked around to see if everyone else's looked as good as hers did.
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After jotting down what she considered useful from the board, she paused when she reached the end of her parchment. Huh. Since when had she written so much? Bev frowned, not having realized she wrote EVERYTHING that was mentioned. Well, from Botros himself.
Knowledge was good, okay.
Taking out another piece of parchment she paused to listen what, yet another badge-y person had to ask.
Oh? Write their names in runes. Now THAT was fun and didn't need talking or sharing answers.
Quickly getting down to it, Beverly scribbled on her new parchment like a madman. B. E. V. E. R. L. Y. She considered adding Juniper Wayne to it, but the girl had asked for name, not middle or surname.
When she was done, she flipped her parchment so that it faced the Gryffindor girl. She did want to see her name in runes, yeah?
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That was a nice happy ending to today's class. Botros nodded at her approvingly. "You may write your name on the board, Captain. And if you explain why you're using each rune, it'll be grand." Mhmm.
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Oh, she could? Alright, then. But no middle name of hers was going up in front of the whole class, on account of that girly thing was nobody's business.
"Um, so... my name is Alice Fischer. If you write that out in phonetic form, it's A-L-I-S F-I-S-H-R." Her fingers scratched the letters out in her messy scrawl as she spoke them aloud. "If I'm translating the phonetic form of my name into runes, it'd be Ansuz for the A..." Scribble."....... Laguz for the L, Isa for the I.... er.. and Sowilo for the S." Adding a dot next to the last rune she'd written, the lioness moved on to her last name.
F. F. Merlin, what was the rune for F? She had to glance at Botros' notes again. "Fehu next, then Isa again... then Sowilo, Hagalaz for the H, and a Raidho." Yep. Ride ho. It went up there at the end of all the others.
Once she'd finished, Alice stepped back and surveyed the blackboard, each rune written under the corresponding letter as neatly as she could manage. The writing was a bit smudged, as she was left handed and all, but overall... okay? Looking for approval here, professor.
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Tobias' face LIT UP at that question and all the concentration he'd been starting to lose suddenly came back at full pelt. Transcribing into Elder Futhark was his favourite thing, and he immediatly grabbed a spare piece of parchment.
First and last name, yes? No need for anybody to hear his middle name today.
The Hufflepuff drew the runes out as neatly and as accurately as he could, and then printed the names underneath each runes in small letters, just for the sake of being thorough. For his first name, he carefully wrote out the runes Tiewaz, Othala, Berkana, Eihwaz, Ansuz and Sowilo in that order. After a dot, Tiewaz, Ehwaz, Mannaz, Perthro, Uruz and Sowilo all came next to spell out 'Tempus', and then he was done.
Toby blew on the ink to dry it as, as his answer, he held the parchment up in front of him so that the Professor and the Gryffindor captain might see that the answer was yes.
Yes he could.
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Close? Close.
Alec nodded and looked over at the board. Were there really that many runic alphabets? And the last one seemed to be incredibly close, too. He stared at the board some more before picking up his quill and scribbling down some notes. Useful... useful notes. Mostly things that had been written up on the board but some things that the other students had said. ... Some because... Alec wouldn't write that quickly.
Hulk's turn to go up? The boy placed his quill down and turned his attention towards the Gryffindor Captain. He gave her a grin and a small thumbs up of encouragement before picking up his quill again. Write name in runes. He glanced over at the steps written on the board. Phonetic? ALEC. Every letter was needed for his name so nothing needed to be shortened, yeah? Good. Thank you, woman who had come up with his name.
... Don't think about THAT.
Shaking his head, he bent his head and started scri-- ... Wait, did they have to write their FULL name? All of it? ... Maybe.
Text Cut: Parchment
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ALEC = ALEC(K)
BLAKE = BLAYK
SUMMERS = SUMERS
A = Ansuz
L = Laguz
E = Ehwaz
C(K) = Kenaz
B = Berkana
L = Laguz
A = Ansuz
Y = Jera
K = Kenaz
S = Sowilo
U = Uruz
M = Mannaz
E = Ehwaz
R = Raidho
S = Sowilo
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Wait. "Erm... Professor? Alice?" he asked, raising his hand in the air, "Are you allowed to add in vowels? Just... just to make the word or name sound right?" Because otherwise, leaving it as 'blak' would only make it sound like the colour. He wasn't Alec Black Summers.
Time to write out their names in Runes? Kace smiled and looked through his textbook. He wanted to get the runes just right. He decided he would spell out his first name and last name.
Then once he was done, he managed to create it onto his black parchment he had from home and did the assignment. He raised his hand timidly and asked, "Uhhh did i do this right?"
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So they were supposed to write out their name using the runic alphabet. Since he rarely used his full name Aleksander, Sander chose his nickname Instead
Identifying the runes that spelled his name, Sander identified Sowilo for the letter S, Ansuz for the letter A, Nauthiz for N, Dagaz for D, Ehwaz for E and finally Raidho for R.
Writing them down he came up with:
Text Cut: Sander spelt in Runic Alphabet
Then next was his last name, Strand. Sowilo was for the letter S, Tiwaz for T, Raidho for R, Ansuz for A, Nauthiz for N and Dagaz for D. Writing out his name is Runic alphabets he came up with nifty piece of art .
Text Cut: Strand in Runic alphabet
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Reason: Didn't see Botros additional comment until later. Wasn't sure whether to use full name or just nickname
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Sophie could do that. If nothing else, she at least knew how to write her own name. She dipped her color-changing quill in ink and got started. Green was first, of course. She eyed the E's. Why did they look like M's anyway? Silly little E's.
It was a good thing she knew how to write M's, because there were three of those in her name. Well, really those were the E's, but since they looked like M's, Sophie had M's in her name when she wrote it in runes. Then there was the W. Why did it look like a P?
Ancient Runes... It was already confusing enough without having to go and change up all the letters.
Finally, she finished. Her work was all nice and greenish-blue. She signed her name on the bottom then put down her quill.
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They were to write their name in runes as was the question the Gryffindor captain had supplied to the class. A question fully supported by the professor. Benjamin paid attention as the older lion demonstrated, hoping he would get a better idea on how to do it. It seemed simple enough though he could be wrong. After copying down the alphabet and the corresponding letters to the English alphabet, he proceeded to try and spell out his name as directed, writing down Benjamin upon the parchment of his notes.
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BENJAMIN
His nickname was a bit easier to start with, he decided, crossing out his first idea and adding the last.
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BEN
Berkana - Ehwaz - Nauthiz
He looked it over, glancing back and forth between it and his notes. It certainly seemed to have been done right. Maybe he should try to do his full name. Rewritting it beneath his previous work, he found it to be a little more troublesome as it needed to be broken down phonetically. A task itself that was...interesting. Finally he was satisfied with what he had come up with and worked on picking out the runes that fit each part. And then there was the actual drawing of the rune.
Nope. Couldn't do that one. Gwen carefully penned her whole first name on a piece of parchment and began the difficult task of trying to spell it out in the Elder Futhark.
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Gwenhwyfar
Gebo Wunjo ehwaz naupiz
This was pointless and Gwen sucked at it. She was going to have to see about dropping this class. It had taken her ages just to write those few letters and she wasn't entirely sure she was right.
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See, this was sort of what Mo had just been talking about. It was imprecise and made him a little nutty to have to use the Anwaz in his first AND last name when they made different sounds, but... but he knew how to do this (and do it well) and Mo really wanted to show Botros what he could do.
Marco Branxton, since that's what the professor thought he was called.
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Marco Branxton
Phonetically: M A R K O . B R A N K S T O N
Mo checked the work several times, although he wasn't thrilled with the vowel sounds, before pushing it out onto his desk to show Botros. If he wanted to see it.
He could also see Kace's work, and Mo leaned across the aisle and put his hand on the other boy's shoulder. "I think you want the Sowilo instead of the Kenaz in your last name. The Sowilo is for a soft c, while the Kenaz is a hard one. Or maybe it's good as it is."
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Oh would you look at that, she wasn't wrong after all. There WAS something to do with Vikings and her mind wasn't simply imagining things again. That was a relief given she felt her mind was starting to stray all over again. Thoughts of hammers smashing into metal boxes and fighting suits of armour, not this...this question stuff. It reminded her of her one year with Christiansen you know, before he went and died.
Lex sat a little straight in her seat when it was Alice's turn to ask a question. Had to look like she was listening and all that.
This was possibly the easiest of all the questions, in fact it wasn't even a question, just her writing on her parchment. Easily done. They'd written in runes just ther term before if she was remembering correctly...or was it last term....it was in the past, that much she knew.
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