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DUE: August 30, 2008
Students earn a total of 25 housepoints if all answers correct. Five points are taken off for each incorrect answer.
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Use diagrams A and B to answer the questions below.
1. Name the layout in Drawing A. (5hp)
The Futhark layout is in Drawing A.
2. What is the method for doing a runecasting for this layout? (5hp)
To do a reading for this layout, you would begin as the previous methods by laying out a white cloth and placing this layout sheet on it. Next you would get your bag of runes and shake them while you think of a question requiring an answer of more than yes or no. Starting from the top left, you would randomly draw a rune and place it on that symbol. Continue randomly drawing runes and placing one on each of the runes going left to right until all of your twenty-four runes are on the twenty-four symbols on the layout sheet. Next and starting at the top left rune symbol, you would get the meaning of the rune you put on the symbol and the meaning would relate to the symbol on the layout. Continue on each row left to right. You would get a complex answer to your question.
3. Explain why the layout in drawing A has its name. (5hp)
This layout is called the Futhark layout because the layout represents the twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark runeset.
4. What is the layout in drawing B called? (3hp)
The Worldstead layout is in drawing B.
5. Explain why the layout in drawing B has its name. (2hp)
The design on this cloth is called Worldstead. The pattern of this cloth mirrors the Norse �ttir of the Heavens (which points out North, South, East and West, and the quadrants between) is combined with the other most obvious division of "space", that of the nine worlds of Yggdrasil, to form the Worldstead design used to divide the casting cloth into fields of meaning.
6. Explain how you would do a runecasting for the layout in drawing B. (5hp)
The runes are cast blindly upon the cloth and are read as they lie on the cloth in their areas of meaning. According to personal custom, runes which land face down may be read as murk-staves or they may be removed from the cloth and set aside. "Inverted" runes cannot be read as such operations of this kind. Those that fall off the cloth altogether should be disregarded. (Note, however, what these runes are;they may be significant by their absence!) Once a final configuration has been established, a complex picture may appear. This kind of casting is sometimes so complex that it cannot be fully interpreted in one sitting (especially by beginning runecasters). Therefore, be sure and draw out a record of the casting. Often the direction a lot is facing;it may seem to be "pointing to" another lot;gives subtle clues which reveal nuances in the lot's interpretation. For this reason a sketched record is preferred. The true significance of the casting may not be realized until sometime later when you are contemplating the working record. The pattern resulting from a casting upon the airts can be read in several ways. You may start from what is now manifesting itself in Midhgardhr and work out to the more remotely influential realms, e.g., from Midhgardhr to Lj�ss�lfheimr and Svart�lfheimr, and from this pairing to �sgardhr and Hel, and from there to the outermost realms of Vanaheimr. Or, you might reverse this process working from Niflheimr and Muspellsheimr back to Midhgardhr. Ultimately, intuition may be each runecaster's best guide.