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 Post Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:46 pm 
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Professor Babbling will be conducting an Ancient Runes class open to Third Years and up later this evening (22 April).

In order to prepare for the class, students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the first eleven runes from the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet:

<center>The Elder Futhark Runes

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From the upper left corner progressing to the right, these runes are:
    fehu "wealth, cattle"
    ûruz "aurochs" (or ûram "water / slag")
    thurisaz "giant, ogre, thorn"
    ansuz "one of the Aesir" (or ahsam "ear (of corn)")
    raidô "ride, journey"
    kaunan "ulcer, illness" (or kenaz, meaning "torch")
    gebô "gift"
    wunjô "joy"
    haglaz "hail (precipitation)"
    naudiz "need"
    îsaz "ice"
    jeran "year"
    eihwaz "yew"
    perþô "pear"
    algiz "elk"
    sôwilô "Sun"
    tîwaz (a god)
    berkanan "birch"
    ehwaz "horse"
    mannaz "man"
    laguz "lake", or laukaz "leek"
    ingwaz (a god)
    dagaz "day"
    ôþalan "estate, inheritance"



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Class will be held as soon after 8:30 pm CST (GMT-6) as possible given the game clock. Location will be the Ancient Runes classroom.

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Notes from the first class. These are details that would be included in the student text books.

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Introduction -- Elder Futhark
The Elder Futhark (or Elder Fuþark, Older Futhark, Old Futhark) is the oldest form of the runic alphabet, used by Germanic tribes for Proto-Norse and other Migration period Germanic dialects of the 2nd to 8th centuries for inscriptions on artifacts (jewelry, amulets, tools, weapons) and rune stones.

The Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names: F, U, Th, A, R and K) consist of twenty-four runes, often arranged in three groups or aett of eight each.


General discussion of the Elder Futhark runic alphabet.




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The links used may not be the best, but they are the ones that I will be using for these runes classes and the following Divination ones.

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