After taking her break, Alyssa decided that it was time for her to continue making the rest of the runes in the Elder Futhark alphabet. She turned back to her textbook and referred to the next group of runes in Tyr’s Aett set. The first rune was Tiwaz. Tiwaz symbolized the Sky God and it represented honor, justice, leadership and the willingness to self-sacrifice. The design for the symbol was an arrow pointing up. Alyssa selected another piece of wood, and picking up her wand, she pointed it at the round wooden disc and said, “INTAGLIO…TIWAZ…TIWAZ” as she started carving arrow into the piece of wood, all the time concentrating on what the rune represented, Once she was done, she brushed off the wood dust, made sure that the arrow was perfect before adding the completed rune to the pile of runes that she had finished making.

Looking at the textbook, Alyssa read that the rune Berkano symbolized Birchita, the birch-goddess. *Berkano looked like the letter B and it represented birth, healing, good health and fertility. Alyssa studied the rune before picking up her wand, and another disc of wood and pointing her wand at it, whispered, “INTAGLIO…BERKANO…BERKANO” as she started carving the lines into the rune. She concentrated on the meaning of the rune and what it represented as she drew the lines of the rune into the piece of wood. Once she was done, she blew off the wood dust, cleared the splinters and placed the completed rune aside.

Alyssa turned the page of her textbook to see what the next letter in the third Aett was and smiled when she saw what it was. It was the all too familiar, Ehwaz. The Rune that they had carved to transport themselves through the portal. Ehwaz symbolized a horse or two horses. Alyssa knew that Ehwaz representation transportation, as well as the gathering of bonds of friendship and the protection of friends. Since she was already familiar with making the rune, Alyssa picked up her wand and said, ”INTAGLIO…EHWAZ…EHWAZ…” and started drawing the lines that looked like the letter M into the wood in front of her, while concentrating on what the rune represented. Once she was done, she brushed off the dust, made sure that the design was exactly what the book showed it to be, before adding it to her completed pile of runes.

Mannaz was the next rune she needed to make. Selecting another piece of wood, Alyssa placed it in front of her before turning to her textbook and reading what Mannaz symbolized and represented. Mannaz symbolized man or mankind and it represented friends and enemies and was often used in meditations. Alyssa carefully studied the design of the rune very carefully because it looked complicated. It looks like a capital M but it also looked like it was an X between two vertical parallel lines. She decided that the latter option would be the easier to do. Picking up her wand, she pointed it at the piece of wood and said, ”INTAGLIO…MANNAZ…MANNAZ” and started carving the rune, while concentrating on what the rune symbolized and represented. She first carved out the two vertical lines parallel to each other. Then she carved a small X in the middle connecting the lines at the top. Once the rune was completed, she matched it with the drawing in her textbook and was glad that she had done it correctly.

Alyssa was glad that she was almost done making the runes. She had only 4 more runes to make. They were Laguz, Ingwaz, Dagaz and Othala.