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Lesson 16 - Answers Tests and Reading

Comprehension Test

1. For what type of situation is Odin's rune ideal?
   Situations which necessitate a quick response to a given set of events

2. Thanks to whom do we know a 3-rune spread was used in antiquity?
   To the Roman historian Tacitus

3. In the Standard Three Rune spread, what is the second position entitled?
   Action Required

4. When you start out as a runecaster what should you do with respect to spreads?
   Stick to using simple ones, we suggest no more than 3 runes

5. How many runes are used in the Cross of Thor spread?
   5
   

6. With which element does the 4th rune in Tyson's Five Elements spread link?
   Water

7. How do you decide what spread to apply in a given situation?
   We would suggest this is a matter of personal preference coupled with intuition about the client and situation

8. Which spread is always unequivocal?
   Odin's Rune

9. With whom is there an obvious link in Silver Ravenwolf's 3-rune spread?
   With the Norns

10. Rather than events, what does the Five Elements spread give us an insight into?
    Personality

Reading

Nothing to add

Further Exercises

1. Tyson's spread uses Air in the North and Water in the East etc which is not consistent with the European Earth in the North model which we know was used by the Saxons and Vikings. From the ordering of the Nine Worlds we know Fire (Fire) was in the South and Ice (Earth) was to the North. Hence some people may feel uncomfortable about using a spread which reflects a different world picture to that historically used in Northern Europe.

2. Again feel free to send it to us if you want. Spread design is not easy and the two attempts you have now had should have convinced you of this. Clearly here the thing was to have your runes arranged in the North (Earth), East (Air), South (Fire) and West (Water).

You have completed this exercise. If you got any of the comprehension answers wrong go back and look at the lesson again to work out why this happened before moving on and do not take more than one Lesson a week.

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