Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 108 Magic Text

  A holiday is always pleasant.

  For students, it is even more so.

  Although there are nasty holiday homework to be done, they can't affect Albert's good mood.

  In fact, Albert had already cleaned up the unfinished homework as quickly as possible the day before the Christmas holiday.

   A vacation without vacation homework is undoubtedly enjoyable.

  During the Christmas holiday, I could sleep until late in the morning and then lie on the sofa after dinner and watch TV for a while. When you are bored, you can tease the cat, listen to music, chat with Nia, play chess, or sit by the fire and find a book to savor.

  However, just after Christmas, Albert found something of interest. After the library in the small town reopened, he went to the library to find relevant records about the runes.

   This incident stemmed from the fact that he had bought a copy of "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes" a while ago, and it took him a lot of effort to finish reading the book. As a result, no skills related to ancient runes appeared on the skill panel.

  Albert thought that this situation was similar to alchemy, so he decided to read more related books to deepen his knowledge of runes and master it.

   As for waiting until the third grade to take the Ancient Runes class?

   Albert didn't have the patience to wait for two and a half years. After all, he is a man with a panel. As long as the relevant skills appear on the panel, the follow-up questions will become very simple.

   There are very few records about runes in the library, but Albert still found relevant records in Germanic mythology:

  Rune letters, also known as rune letters, originated in Germanic mythology and are related to Odin, the famous father of the gods. It is said that Odin exchanged an eye for the knowledge of runes. (The word rune itself has a "mysterious" meaning)

  Odin belongs to the Germanic mythology, and the runes belong to the Germanic language. Speaking of the Germanic people, the first thing Albert thinks of is the Germans.

  Well, yes, they are old-fashioned Germans, and German evolved from Germanic.

   However, there is a problem!

  Albert still vaguely remembered that the author of Harry Potter used a lot of Latin when designing spells. However, Latin and Germanic belonged to two different languages.

  Albert never thought of himself as an archaeologist, let alone a language expert. He never thought of solving these problems that confused his mind. He chose to record his doubts. Maybe, the more knowledge he has about the runes, the doubts will be solved automatically.

   Later, Albert really found the connection between the two in the library: after the disappearance of the runes, Germanic also used part of the Latin alphabet.

  This explains why Britain and Germany use the Latin alphabet, but are classified as Germanic.

   After several days of hard work, Albert understood a little bit why Hogwarts offered the elective course Ancient Runes.

  Germanic mythology originated in Scandinavia, which is now Sweden.

  According to Albert's review of Germanic languages, the languages ​​of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland near Sweden are all derived from Germanic languages ​​and belong to North Germanic languages.

  Old English is derived from Anglo-Saxon Futok, which belongs to West Germanic, that is, the rune alphabet.

  Later, it seemed that it was related to religion, and a large number of Latin letters were introduced. The whole of Europe was heavily influenced by Latin. Albert speculated that this might be one of the reasons why the runes disappeared.

  However, there is one thing that cannot be denied. The runes have magical powers. Ancient magic items will be engraved with such ancient runes to enhance their magical power.

   Albert believes that this stems from the rune stone, which was well-known in the magical world in his previous life.

  Although many things come from his own guesses, Albert still enjoys it. He is exploring these ancient texts, contacting them, and trying to learn to identify them and understand them.

   After Albert consulted a large amount of information, he found that the records in Muggles were very limited.

  For this reason, Albert wrote to Truman and asked Truman, and at the proposal of the other party, he bought "Magic Character Table" and "Magic Dictionary" from Lihen Bookstore.

  Compared with the ordinary world, the magic world has a better understanding of runes. After all, this thing belongs to the mysterious side.

In the following holidays, Albert spent a lot of time trying to decipher the runes, which was a difficult task, but such attempts finally paid off, and finally appeared on his panel called " Although the skill of "Mowen" is different from what he imagined, Albert still used the experience pool to upgrade this skill to level 1.

   Soon, he found that he could barely understand the runes. The feeling was very strange, and he could vaguely feel the magical charm of the ancient runes.

Albert continued to invest experience in "Magic Words". After directly upgrading to level 2, he found that he could read and understand most of the runes without the help of "Magic Word Phonetic Table" and "Magic Word Dictionary" , and be able to read them aloud.

This is a very interesting thing. The rune letters that Albert mastered with the help of the panel are undoubtedly correct, and when he re-reads the "Magic Alphabet" and "Magic Dictionary" through his own cognition, he will be able to Found some interesting bugs.

  Sometimes things like text may not be able to be clearly and accurately described with another text, and errors are inevitable.

   Especially those runic steles with religious overtones, most of the interpretations are actually somewhat wrong.

  A rune character is somewhat different in symbolic meaning, magic application, function of rune and analysis of divination.

  Once these things are mixed up, the final result will be biased.

  After mastering the rune alphabet, Albert began to be keen on finding faults, looking for those mistranslated places, and recording them.

   Later, Albert began to try to design and study the use of runes in magic. The amulets that had been left behind before became the subject of Albert's latest research. However, before he could get the rune on the amulet right, the Christmas holiday was over.

   Albert took the express train back to Hogwarts the day before school started.

   As he expected, Fred and George did not make a garlic cross, but they smuggled a bunch of garlic from home, and Lee Jordan was no exception.

  Looking at the garlic piled in front of him, Albert's eyelids twitched a little. He thought the three of them had forgotten about it.

   "Have you finished your vacation homework?" Albert changed the subject, he really didn't want to continue entangled in the garlic issue.

   "Oh, there is a little more." Lee Jordan said while eating pumpkin pie, "I will go to the library to find materials later, and I will make up for it soon."

   "There is no problem on our side." The twin brothers said in unison.

   "Copy each other?" Albert saw through their tricks at a glance.

   "No, this is called borrowing."

  Lee Jordan snorted disdainfully, and continued to bury his head in eating.

   Just read this chapter. I am not an expert in this field, and my understanding of runes is limited. If there is a master, I can give you a popular science in the comments. If you are interested in this part of the information, you can also go to the group to read it, and I will post it after sorting it out.

  (end of this chapter)