Lessons - Tests

Answers Lesson 8 - Tests and Reading

Comprehension Test

1. What must any true master of the runes achieve?
   a personal understanding and feel for their meanings

2. Why did certain things get chosen to be used as rune glyphs?
   because they had particular significance to the culture of the day

3. Which rune should anyone who has faced bankruptcy or experienced a period of poverty in their lives be able to grasp the meaning of?
   Fehu (Feoh). But, whilst that is a straight response based on what we said in the lecture, it is not the ONLY possible answer. None of these name a rune questions just have one answer and determining if an answer is right depends on how you interpret the question and how you regard the rune meanings. You could equally have replied to this question by using the Othala (Ethel) rune because anyone who has learned the insubstantial nature of portable wealth as represented by Fehu (Feoh) will also have probably come to value real estate, ancestral lands handed on from generation to generation etc.

4. Name something which it is believed is depicted by a rune glyph
   Well many possible answers but some of those you could have given as a result of what we said in the lecture are tribal banner, need fire, cart's wheel. You could also have said icicle from an earlier lecture

5. Name a rune relating to travel or transport?
   Obvious ones are Raido (Rad) and Ehwaz (Eh)

6. Name a rune suggesting natural destructive powers
   Again obvious ones are Hagalaz (Haegl) and Thurisaz (Thorn) but there are other possibilities including Isa (Is)

7. Name a rune relating to fertility
   Obvious ones are Fehu (Feoh), Inguz (Ing) and Berkana (Beorc)

8. Name a rune of things slowing down or stopping?
   The simple answer if you take the "or" to mean both these things is Isa (Is) but if you take it as meaning "either" then there are numerous runes of completion such as Dagaz (Daeg) or Jera (Ger) you could also have chosen. We deliberately phrased this question in an ambiguous way to illustrate the point of not taking things at face value. There is usually more than one way to answer any question about rune meanings.

9. Name a rune of protection
   Easy ones are Algiz (Eohl) and Thurisaz (Thorn) but there are others etc We hope you have got the message by now.

10. Name a rune relating to home, family, clan and nation
    We could only think of Othala (Ethel) for this one since we deliberately made the question so specialized, but if you have an alternative proposal we would love to hear it

Further Exercises

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Reading

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