"Good" said Raina as she waved her wand at lupy's book to force it to turn to the appropriate first page.
"Today we are learning about the origin of the Runes that youwill be studying for the months to follow" She said sweetly.
"Ancient Runes can easily be traced back to the Great Norse gods" with that she waved her wand into the air in an almost dance like motion and between her and the students appeared a whispy 3D image that acted out everything that she said. "I believe that they truely start with Odin, the Norse high God of the Aesir, who, apon being impaled on his own spear, hung from the world tree(called yggdrasil) for nine days and nights in order to gaint he knowledge of the runes." As she talked the whispy image depicted a Man with a long white beard, peirced through the gut on a long wooden spear that was jammed into a larger than life tree.
"When the runes appeared below him, he reached down and took them up, and the runic knowledge gave him power" The image showed this great man, watching the ground around the tree, until sparkling gold and silver symbols appeared at this feet, apon which point, he reached down with his masive hand and scooped them up into his palm.
"He would later pass on this knowledge to the Vanir goddess Freya, in exchange for learning the magic of Seidr" The image then changed to a free Odin presenting a lovely lady, with long flowing golden hair and loosefitting greecian robes, with a golden box, and in exchange she placed her fair white hand apon his forehead and for a moment there was a warm glowing light that eminated between them.
"But in the end it was Heimdall, the god who guarded the ranbow bridge, that passed the knowledge of the runes to mankind" With this, the picture dissapeared completely and the class once again, sat facing only Raina.
"any questions so far?" she asked her students before she continued with her lecture.
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