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Old 01-09-2013, 12:18 PM   #140 (permalink)
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SPOILER!!: professor
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Okay, enough answers. Botros lifted himself off the boy's desk and went to stand by Mr. Turner. "Most of you gave great, correct answers. To sum it all up I'll rephrase them." They didn't need to go into details about Thor, this was not History of Magic. "Thor, Thorr, Thunar, or even Donar is the person in the picture. His name means "The Thunderer" which, as we'll see soon, is legit." He leaned slightly on the boy's shoulder, again. "He is son of Odin and Jord. The Hammer-God of thunder and lightening, agriculture and craftsmanship. Thor also is the God of defense and strength, and we'll focus on this today." He stole a glance toward the piles, with a smile on his face. "His magic hammer is known as Mjöllnir, as some of you mentioned it means The Smasher, the Crasher or even The Destroyer." It depends on which source you refer to. "It's forged by the Dwarf Brokk, hits everything that Thor aims at and always comes back to his hand. Thor can reduce its size to hang it around his neck instead of always carrying it around with his hand." Useful.

"He, the Almighty Thor, is champion of the Gods and enemy of the Giants, also a protector of mankind." He smiled at the boy who mentioned this. "He has a magic belt called Megingjardar, which means "Strength Increaser", and drives a chariot pulled by two Giant male goats." They, unfortunately were not going to see those in class. "With all those weapons, Thor forms an invincible power and champion against his enemies." Pause. ""It shall never fail, no matter how big nor how hard that which it smites may be; no matter how far it is thrown, it will always return to your hand; you may make it so small that it can be hidden in your bosom, and its only fault is the shortness of its handle." As Brokk, the dwarf who created this hammer, had described it."

"Thor is a size-shifter, he is terribly heavy and hot. Although he is sometimes over-hasty in judgment, he is a totally reliable friend and battle companion. He has wild red hair and beard, always dresses in battle dress." Motioning at the picture behind him for evidence. "There are so many legendary stories about Thor, his bravery, his strength and the victorious battles he went through."

Botros paused, leaning on his desk. "The main reason we're discussing Thor and his hammer, is the fact that most of his power and control of Thunder and Lightening comes from runic magic that the dwarf who made Mjöllnir etched on it, and then was magicked by his father, All-father, and father of runes Odin." He went to the blackboard and drew a set of runes. "It's very difficult to know what exactly is written on the Mjöllnir that gave this incomparable strength but most resources point at the direction of this set of runes." He pointed at the blackboard. "Who can define some of those runes, and tell us their meanings."

ooc:- Do not edit your answer after you posted it.
- Class will resume in about 10 hrs.


LEGIT.

THE PROFESSOR SAID LEGIT. West was pleased now. Next thing he'd say that Thor had swag, which was true, and it would show that this old awesome man was down with the Wizarding youth.

Also, had anyone else noticed that Thor sounded rather like a Gryffindor? No? Just West?

The thirteen year old was sitting FORWARD in his seat, eager. Not wanting to miss anything even if at this point it wasn't new information. He was nodding along with everything, eyes alight.

MAYBE if he played his cards runes right, he'd get to blow things up with runes in class! YEAH!

Defining the runes? Could he say them all? He knew them all. West wrote them down. Algiz, Isa, Nauthiz merkstave, Laguz... and then he stopped and eyed them. Oh. Clever. His hand went uppppppppp.

"So professor? My answer sort of depends, I guess, if we're working from the Elder Futhark or the Younger one, the Scandinavian one." He traced in the air the first four symbols."If its Elder Futhark we have Algiz, Isa, Nauthiz, Laguz, and then Nauthiz merkstave, Isa, and Algiz merkstave, but Mjollnir? That's a Old Norse word, 8th Century!" He wiggled forward on his seat. "So it could be the Younger Futhark Runes, maðr, iss, ár, lögr, nauð iss again, and then ýr!" West's tongue tripped over the strange-sounding words with ease. Not that he'd gone into meanings cos well, important tangent right?

And he had to knowwwwww before he could answer more anyways.
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