Days at Hogwarts
Chapter 108

Runes

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Holidays are always enjoyable.

This is especially true for students.

Although there are pesky holiday homework to complete, they can't dampen Albert's good mood.

In fact, Albert had already cleared away all the unfinished homework as quickly as possible the day before Christmas Holiday.

A vacation without vacation homework is undoubtedly enjoyable.

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

However, just after Christmas, Albert found something interesting. After the library in the town reopened, he went to the library to look for relevant records about Rune Alphabet.

This incident came from the fact that he bought a copy of "《Easy Introduction to Ancient Runes》" a while ago, and it took a lot of effort to finish the book. As a result, Skill Panel did not have any skills related to Ancient Runes.

Albert thought that this situation was similar to alchemy, so he decided to deepen his understanding of Rune Alphabet by reading more related books to master it.

As for, wait until the third grade to take Ancient Runes? Albert doesn't have the patience to wait for two and a half years. After all, he is a man with a panel. As long as relevant skills appear on the panel, subsequent questions will become very simple.

There are very few records about Rune Alphabet in the library, but Albert still found relevant records in Germanic Mythology: Rune Alphabet, also known as the rune alphabet, originated from Germanic Mythology and is related to the famous father of the gods Odin. It is said that Odin used one eye in exchange for the knowledge of runes. (The word rune itself has the meaning of "mysterious") Odin belongs to Germanic Mythology, Rune Alphabet belongs to Germanic Language, and when talking about Germanic people, Albert first thinks of Germany people.

Well, that's right, they are the old-fashioned Germany people. German evolved from Germanic Language.

However, there's a problem!

Albert still vaguely remembers that the author of Harry Potter used a lot of Latin when designing the spell. However, Latin and Germanic Language belong to two different languages.

Albert never thought of himself as an archaeologist, let alone a language expert. He never thought about solving these problems that confused his mind. He chose to record his doubts. Perhaps, as he mastered more knowledge about Rune Alphabet, the doubts would be solved automatically.

Later, Albert actually found the connection between the two in the library: after Rune Alphabet disappeared, Germanic Language also used part of the Latin alphabet.

This explains why Britain and Germany use Latin letters but are classified as Germanic Language.

After spending several days, Albert figured out why Hogwarts offered Ancient Runes elective courses.

Germanic Mythology originated from Scandinavian Peninsula, which is now Sweden.

According to Albert's search of Germanic Language, the languages of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland near Sweden are all evolved from Germanic Language and belong to North Germanic Language.

Old English is derived from Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, which belongs to West Germanic Language, which is Rune Alphabet.

Later, a large number of Latin letters were introduced, seemingly due to religious reasons. The entire Europe is seriously affected by Latin. Albert thought that this might be one of the reasons why Rune Alphabet disappeared.

However, one thing cannot be denied, Rune Alphabet has magic power, Ancient Magic items will be engraved with this ancient Runes to enhance their Magical Power.

Albert believes that this comes from Rune Stone. In his previous life, Rune Stone was famous in the magical world.

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

After reviewing a large amount of information on Albert, I found that the records in Muggle are very limited.

For this reason, Albert wrote to inquire about Truman. At the other party's suggestion, he bought "《Magical Phonetic Table》" and "《Rune Dictionary》" from Flourish and Blotts.

Compared with the ordinary world, Wizarding World understands the character Runic Script better. After all, this thing originally belongs to the mysterious side.

During the following vacation, Albert spent a lot of time trying to decipher the word Runic Script. This was a difficult task, but the attempt finally paid off. A skill named "Runes" finally appeared on his panel. Although it was 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 characters Runic Script. It felt wonderful, and he could vaguely feel the magical charm of Ancient Runes.

Albert continued to invest experience in "Runes". After rising directly to level 2, he found that he could read and understand most of the words Runic Script without the help of "《Magical Phonetic Table》" and "《Rune Dictionary》", and could read them aloud.

This is a very interesting thing. The Rune Alphabet mastered by Albert with the help of the panel is undoubtedly correct. When he looks at "《Magical Phonetic Table》" and "《Rune Dictionary》" through his own cognition again, he can find some interesting errors.

Sometimes things like words cannot be described clearly and accurately using another kind of words, so errors are inevitable.

Especially those Rune Stone monuments with religious overtones, most interpretations are actually somewhat wrong.

A word Runic Script is somewhat different in terms of symbolic meaning, magical application, and function of the talisman and Divination.

Once you mix these things up, the end result will be skewed.

After mastering Rune Alphabet, Albert became passionate about finding faults, looking for mistranslations, and recording them.

Later, Albert began to try to design and study the use of Runes in magic. The amulet, which had been forgotten before, became Albert's latest research topic. However, before he could finish Runes on the amulet, Christmas Holiday was already over.

Albert took Hogwarts Express back to Hogwarts the day before school started.

As he expected, Fred and George did not make Garlic Cross, but they secretly obtained a bunch of garlic from home, and Li·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 holiday homework?" Albert changed the subject. He really didn't want to continue to struggle with the issue of garlic.

"Oh, there's one more thing." Li·Jordan said while eating Pumpkin Pasties, "I'll go to the library to look for information later, and I'll be able to make up for it soon."

"We have no problem here." Twins brothers said in unison.

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

"No, this is called borrowing."

Li·Jordan snorted disdainfully and continued to eat.

Just read this chapter. I am not an expert in this field, and my understanding of the word Runic Script is limited. If there are experts, I can give you some knowledge in the comments. If you are interested in this part of the information, you can also go to the group to read it. I will post it after sorting it out.

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