The child has arrived, and Vilia is not in a hurry now.
She turned around slowly and asked: "Rurik, are you hungry?"
"No, I just saw those wooden boards quickly."< /p>
"You'd better eat some more meat. I have other things to tell you about seeing the wooden board."
Thread the meat through the branches and roast it on the charcoal fire, and leave it Rick knew he was eating seal meat. Because there was no time to process the seal meat properly, the meat was full of congestion. This kind of meat can only be really delicious if it is grilled for a longer time and sprinkled with enough salt.
While chewing the meat, he listened to Vilia’s explanation.
"You know what the words on those wooden boards are. If you want to understand the contents on the wooden boards, you must fully learn those letters."
"Yes! I can."< /p>
"Of course you will. It's not that difficult. You have a lot of time to study with me. Maybe you can master it in a few days."
"So I must first Learn the letters, right?"
"Yes. You eat slowly and I will prepare you. I will teach you how to identify each letter in the next few days. Remember, those letters mark our language. When you master the letters, you can teach yourself everything about the board without even my guidance." It was difficult to understand, so she explained further.
How could Rurik know nothing about it? Even the runes certainly don't have any weird pronunciations.
Because the Old Norse language, which I had to learn since birth, is actually very easy to learn.
The consciousness named Liu Li resides in Rurik's body. This is a guy who has passed CET-6. Life in that plane gave him innately strong logical analysis skills and knowledge far beyond that of ordinary people in this time and space.
With a simple comparative analysis, he discovered that many words in Old Norse and English thousands of years later are related to each other. As if Old Norse was a special dialect of modern English, the pronunciations of all the words were both familiar and unfamiliar, but not strange pronunciations after all.
Rurik had seen some runes before, but since there was no comparison table between runes and Latin letters, for the time being, his scalp was numb when he saw those letters.
He did analyze a clear point. No matter how strange the symbol of the rune letters is, it must be separated into vowels and consonants, and have strict correspondence. Dozens of letters can be arranged and combined to interpret the Old Norse language.
Rurik's analysis is very correct, because the source of rune letters and Latin letters are the same.
The dawn of civilization first shined in Mesopotamia, and local residents established a state early. In order to maintain the operation of a huge country, writing came into being.
Cuneiform writing was originally pictographic. In order to pursue practicality and convenience, it graduallyIt became a pure pinyin text. The ancient cuneiform alphabet was improved by the ancient Phoenicians, resulting in the Phoenician alphabet.
The neighboring Aegean region learned the Phoenician alphabet and created its own early Greek alphabet. Following ancient trade routes, the Greeks in the Balkans sold their goods to the north, naturally coming into contact with the Germans. But when Rome controlled most of Europe, the Germanic people also began to learn the ancient Roman alphabet.
Rome declined, and the Franks among the Germanic people occupied a large area of Western Europe. They followed the standard ancient Roman alphabet. Finally, the rune alphabet invented by a variety of channels was only used in the Baltic and Rim regions. Still in use in Britain.
No matter how it evolves, because the runes and ancient Roman letters have a common origin from ancient Greek letters, the writing of some letters is naturally strongly related. The most important thing is the logic of letter spelling. It hasn't changed in thousands of years.
Rurik felt even more energetic after eating the meat.
Seeing this, Villa immediately ordered: "Now follow me to that room, and I will show you a wooden board first."
Rurik nodded and just followed. Behind the shambling priest.
Villa lit all the candles in the narrow compartment of the large chief priest's house.
The scene is exactly the same as the scene I have seen for a while. There are still a large number of carefully polished wooden boards piled here.
Rurik stood quietly at the door, watching Vilia struggle to take out a piece of wood from among the many boards.
She wiped off the dust on it, took a final breath, and showed a satisfied smile.
She turned back to Rurik and showed the wooden board deliberately: "This is it, recording all the letters that can write our language. Next, you must be able to master all twenty-four letters. ."
The number of rune letters is twenty-four? Rurik shook his head in surprise. He had expected that the alphabet would have more letters.
Because the Russian alphabet in later generations has as many as thirty-two!
"Come out with me now, we are going to study in a more commanding place. I will tell you how to pronounce all the letters, and I will also tell you the meaning behind it."
After a while, Rurik sat cross-legged on the soft deerskin, with a cast-iron basin in front of him, and the charcoal fire inside was slowly burning.
Vilia sat in front of Rurik, holding a wooden board in his hand, and began to give him instructions one by one.
How to educate a student? Verya taught Rurik the same way he taught lower-level priests.
Those young priests are not interested in learning more knowledge. They can at least master the use of rune letters well, because they must master the ancient spells written with this letter in order to Sacrifice scenes are used normally.
Rurik was an open-minded student at this time. He suddenly remembered another dimension, the place where he first learned the English phonetic notation system.scene.
Soon, an extremely complicated feeling came over him.
Look at these twenty-four runes, they are arranged in a matrix on this rectangular oak board.
If you look closely at the structure of some letters, there are only slight differences from the modern Roman letters thousands of years later.
Roman letters such as F, R, I, T, S, and B, and rune letters actually have a similar writing pattern. At first glance, he can estimate what the letter should look like. pronounce.
Among the twenty-four runes, it seems that some are modified Roman letters, some are written upside down, or are written in mirror mode.
There are some vowels, they all have strong characteristics.
The messages are all carved on wooden boards. The carvers use a small chisel to work. Based on the limitations of the equipment and the technical level of the operator, all letters have sharp edges and corners.
This is not surprising, as the cuneiform script from which it originated is sharply angular. In the ancient Roman alphabet of the Roman era, the huge words spelled out with stones were also sharply angular. Only when written on soft parchment with a quill pen, the words began to become curved.
The Rus tribe currently has no clear writing tools.
Of course, ordinary tribesmen have no real opportunity to write throughout their lives. In this time and space, writing is an extremely luxurious act!