Chapter 108： magic text

Chapter 108 Magic Text

  Vacation is always a joyful time.

 This is especially true for students.

Although there were annoying holiday homework to complete, they couldn't dampen Albert's good mood.

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

 A vacation without vacation homework is undoubtedly enjoyable.

 During the Christmas holidays, I can sleep until very late in the morning, then lie on the sofa and watch TV for a while after dinner. 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 he was interested in. After the library in the town reopened, he went to the library to look for relevant records about runes.

This incident came from the fact that he bought a "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Magic Texts" a while ago, and it took a lot of effort to finish the book, but as a result, no skills related to ancient magic texts appeared on the skill panel.

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

As for, wait until the third grade to take the ancient magic text class?

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 runes in the library, but Albert still found relevant records in Germanic mythology:

runes, also known as runes, originated from Germanic mythology and are related to the famous father of the gods, Odin. Legend has it that Odin gave an eye in exchange for the knowledge of runes. (The word rune itself has the meaning of "mysterious")

Odin belongs to Germanic mythology, and runes belong to Germanic languages. When talking about Germanic people, the first thing that comes to Albert’s mind is the Germans.

Hmm, yes, they are the old-fashioned Germans, and German evolved from Germanic languages.

However, there is a problem!

Albert still vaguely remembers that the author of Harry Potter used a lot of Latin when designing the spells. However, Latin and Germanic are 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 of runes, the doubts would be solved automatically.

Later, Albert actually found the connection between the two in the library: after the runic letters disappeared, Germanic languages ​​also used part of the Latin alphabet.

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

After several days of effort, Albert figured out why Hogwarts has an elective course on ancient magic.

 Germanic mythology originated in Scandinavia, which is now Sweden.

According to Albert's research on Germanic languages, the languages ​​of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland near Sweden all evolved from Germanic languages ​​and belong to North Germanic languages.

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

 Later, a large number of Latin letters were introduced, seemingly due to religious reasons. The whole of Europe was heavily influenced by Latin. Albert wondered if this might be one of the reasons why the runes disappeared.

However, one thing cannot be denied, the runes possess magical power, and ancient magic objects will be engraved with this ancient magic text to enhance their magical power.

Albert believes that this is due to the rune stone. In his previous life, the rune stone was famous in the wizarding world.

 Although a lot of 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 consulting a large amount of information, Albert found that Muggle records were very limited.

To this end, Albert wrote to Truman and asked Truman. At the other party's suggestion, he bought "Magic Phonogram" and "Magic Dictionary" from Flourish Blossom Bookstore.

 Compared with the ordinary world, the magical world knows more about runes. After all, this thing is originally mysterious.

During the following vacation, Albert spent a lot of time trying to decipher the runes. This was a difficult thing, but such attempts paid off in the end, and a message called " Although the skill of "Magic Text" 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. It was a wonderful feeling, and he could vaguely feel the magical charm of the ancient runes.

Albert continued to invest experience in "Magic Texts". After directly rising to level 2, he found that he could read and understand most runes without the help of "Magic Phonetic Table" and "Magic Text Dictionary". , and be able to read them out loud.

This is a very interesting thing. The runes that Albert mastered with the help of the panel are undoubtedly correct, and when he looks at the "Magic Phonetic Table" and "Magic Dictionary" through his own cognition, he can Found some interesting bugs.

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

Especially for those rune tablets with religious overtones, most interpretations are actually somewhat wrong.

 A rune is somewhat different in terms of symbolic meaning, magical application, function of talisman and divination analysis.

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

After mastering the runes, 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 the magic text on the amulet, the Christmas vacation was over.

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

As he expected, Fred and George did not make garlic crosses, but they secretly obtained 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 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.” Lee Jordan said while eating pumpkin pie, “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.” The twin brothers said in unison.

 “Copy each other?” Albert saw through their trick at a glance.

 “No, this is called borrowing.”

 Lee Jordan snorted disdainfully and continued to eat.

Just read this chapter. I am not an expert in this field, and my understanding of runes 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.

　　

 (End of this chapter)