The child has arrived, and Vilia is not in a hurry now.
She turned around slowly and asked: "Rurik, are you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry, I just hurry up and see those wooden boards."
"You'd better eat some more meat. I have other things to tell you about seeing the wooden board."
Threading the meat through branches and roasting it on the charcoal fire, Rurik knew that what he was eating was seal meat. Because there was no time to process the seal meat properly, the meat was full of congestion. Such meat can only be roasted for a longer time.
Sprinkle enough salt to make it really delicious.
While chewing the meat, he listened to Vilia's explanation.
"You know what the words on those wooden boards are. To understand what's on the wooden boards, you must fully learn the letters."
"Yes! I will."
"Of course you can. 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 have to learn those letters first, right?"
"Yes. You eat the meat slowly and I will prepare it. In the next few days, I will teach you how to identify each letter well. You must remember that those letters mark our language. When you can
Master the alphabet so well that you can teach yourself everything on the board without even needing my guidance.”
Vilia was afraid that Rurik would not understand, so she explained further.
How could Rurik know nothing about it? Even those rune letters, they certainly don't have any strange pronunciations.
Because the Old Norse language, which I had to learn since I was born, is actually very easy to learn.
The consciousness named Liu Li that resides in Rurik's body is a guy who has passed CET-6. The life in that plane gave him an innate ability to analyze logic and logic far beyond his abilities.
Knowledge of civilians in time and space.
Through 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 modern English dialect, the pronunciation of all words
It's both familiar and unfamiliar, but it's not a strange pronunciation after all.
Rurik had seen some runes before, but since there was no comparison table between runes and Latin letters, he could only feel 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 divided into vowels and consonants, and have strict correspondence. Dozens of letters can be arranged and combined to interpret
Old Norse.
Rurik's analysis is very correct, because the rune alphabet and the Latin alphabet have the same origin.
The dawn of civilization first shone in Mesopotamia, and local residents established a state early. In order to maintain the operation of a huge country, writing came into being.
Cuneiform was originally pictographic. In order to pursue practicality and convenience, it gradually became a pure pinyin script. The ancient cuneiform alphabet was improved by the ancient Phoenicians, thus giving birth to the Phoenician alphabet.
The neighboring Aegean region learned the Phoenician alphabet and created its own early Greek alphabet. Along the ancient trade routes, the Greeks in the Balkans sold their goods to the north and naturally came into contact with the Germans. But when Rome took control
In most of Europe, Germanic people also began to learn the ancient Roman alphabet.
Rome declined, and the Franks, one of the Germanic peoples, occupied a large area of Western Europe. They followed the standard ancient Roman alphabet. Finally, the rune alphabet, which was invented through a variety of channels, is still used only in the Baltic Sea region and 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 that the logic of letter spelling has not changed for 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 be the first to show you a wooden board."
Rurik nodded and simply followed the stumbling priest.
Villa lit all the candles in the narrow compartments of the large chief priest's house.
The scene is exactly the same as what 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 wooden 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."
Are there twenty-four runes? Rurik shook his body in surprise. He originally thought that this alphabet system would have more letters.
Because the Russian alphabet in later generations has as many as thirty-two!
"Come out with me now. We're going to study somewhere more commanding. I'll tell you how to pronounce all the letters, and I'll tell you the meaning behind them."
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.
Villa 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 the 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 be proficient in the ancient incantations written with these letters in order to use them normally in sacrificial scenes.
Rurik was an open-minded student at this time, and he suddenly recalled the scene in another dimension where he first learned the English phonetic notation system.
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 carefully at the structure of some letters, there are only slight differences from the modern Roman letters thousands of years later.
Roman letters like f, r, i, t, s, b, and rune letters actually have similar writing patterns. At first glance, he can estimate the pronunciation of this letter.
Among the twenty-four runes, it seems that some are modified Roman letters, some are written upside down, or are written in mirror mode.
On the contrary, some vowels have strong characteristics.
The messages are all carved on wooden boards. The carvers use a small chisel to work. Due to the limitations of the equipment and the technical level of the operator, all letters have sharp edges and corners.
This is not surprising. The cuneiform script that it originated from has sharp edges and corners. In the ancient Roman letters of the Roman era, the huge words made of stones were also sharp and sharp. Only when written on soft parchment with a quill pen, the words began to become curved.
For the Rus tribe, they currently have 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 behavior!