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Well, Happy New Year to us!

First of all, we want to thank you, dear readers. It is your reaction to our posts - your likes and comments - that makes us move forward and not stop. Despite the fact that we have become less likely to post lately; despite the fact that the subject has changed a little, you still stay with us and continue to follow what we write, draw and tell. Thank you very much for this.

Secondly, I have to admit (personally, I, Andrey) that I tried to bite off a piece a little more than I could swallow. Because, it turns out, we now have as many as four projects: a comic book, Volkolak's notes, going to the Stursky country and a song about strange love. And that's not counting any classic historical posts. You understand, in short.

Therefore, if you followed with interest some of our other projects and waited for the continuation, I apologize. Is it true. They will all be completed sooner or later, but for this I need a little more effort and free time. I really hope that in the new year 2022 with their presence it will be a little better.

I wish you inspiration, good health (including mental health!) and endurance. Let's break through together!

A lanamhatha Iach Shoitha!

Today we brought you some Viking magic. With some historical facts (and how without them).

We turn, of course, to the notes of the same nameless author who wrote runic verses and a bunch of other things. The first point in his notes on magic, he deals, of course, with various systems of divination/divination. All this is described in one capacious word. spa.

He again mentions that in order to read the most correct prophecy, one must know the person whose fate one is reading. Because the most important thing in divination is interpretation. Anyone can throw runes on the table, but it’s already much more difficult to interpret, and the personal qualities of the one who is being guessed play a very big role in this.

Among all this, we first of all hoped to find one specific thing - and we did not lose (haha). This is the so-called fimmrunaspá (fortune telling on five runes), which, by the way, is still in use today. You could see him on the first page of our comic.

Why is it interesting? The fact that it is primordial and not Lavinavian at all. Yes Yes! It came to them from the alvs-sadorei, their close neighbors (not always kind, but that's a completely different story). Sadori themselves, of course, did not use runes: they used other symbols for this; but the principle has not changed much. And what does it consist of?

Sadori traditionally believe that the fate of a person / alva / substitute something else is determined by five things:

• aihtihat - “external”, that is, circumstances beyond the control of a person;
• dirruosa - "will";
• vlahtta - "thoughts", lit. "brain";
• Cuorat - "feelings", lit. "heart";
• mallois - "body".

Fortune-telling looks outwardly very simple: the soothsayer (nitsa) takes out five runes from the bag in turn (the sadores have their analogues) without looking and puts them in his palm without looking. Each rune corresponds to one of the aspects listed above, in the same order. And then ... right! Interpretation!

This method has survived to this day, probably because it requires nothing more than a bag of runes and the ability to count to five. And modern sadori, by the way, also use it.

I continue my entertainment with Glynar calligraphy. Already bold enough to write not only the alphabet, but also hieroglyphs. They still come out a little odd in shape, but already much better than the first time (it's good that you didn't see =D)

The text is still the same, a hymn to Royna:

É Thàlbhaeridh an im Illìn,
Dag lerain bhait an audrann dhin.
Edh ollanannaigh seao far,
Teithasa an thail ailen-shar.

O Star Queen who resides behind the moon,
Your eyes are so clear
And blessed is your hand
Lighting up the stars in the sky.

I came to tell you something. You have seen posts more than once or twice in which there were inscriptions made in Glinnar vertical writing (for example, at least https://marraidh.com/e-thalbhaeridh/). It looks aesthetically pleasing, and is perfect for recording modern clay and northern clay. But why then is romanica usually used instead of it now? And why is it so similar to the spellings of some other languages?

It all started, in fact, with typography. And it ended with him: not a single method invented by anyone could satisfy the needs of Glinnar vertical writing. Woodcuts were quite suitable for hieroglyphs, but not for the alphabet itself: there are too many curved and parallel features. Typesetting, which arose later, was not suitable for anything at all: there were too many hieroglyphs, and in words there was an incredible number of ligatures. And somewhere in the middle of the 15th - early 16th century, the transition to romance began.

First of all, they decided to translate the largest living language from the Glinnar group into it - Glinnarya (South Glinnar). And they used the most logical scientific approach for this: they looked at which of the Orean languages has a phonetics that is as similar as possible to Glynarya. It turned out to be Lorland (at that time - medium), and the Alves borrowed the alphabet from it, modifying it somewhat.

Of course, the Lorland spelling at that time was somewhat different from the modern one (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type), but later both the Lorlanders modernized theirs and the Glynarians modernized theirs. So to this day, these two are very similar to each other.

For the North Glinnar, they took the duat one a little later - and the history of modernization was the same as with the previous one. Finally, the Llaehian remained, and everything was not much more complicated with him either - they took the Botanian. And the then Botian spelling differed from the modern one only in one letter, so you yourself understand that there was no need to modernize there.

The post is already getting long, so I'm rounding it up. In the next post on this subject, I will try to briefly explain the similarities and main differences between all Glinnar spellings and their prototypes.

(for the queries “Llaehsky”, “Glinnarya” and “NorthGlinnarsky”, you can also find examples in our posts. Small, but still)

Our comic has been out for three months now; things begin to become clearer. So it's time to open the veil of secrecy a little and talk about things that will no longer be spoilers, but will help to understand the plot a little better.

The events of the comics develop in the middle of the first century AD - this is the very beginning of the so-called. "golden age" of the Vikings. They had not yet built huge warships for thirty pairs of oars, but even on small ones (which are called karvi) they successfully carried out military raids on nearby islands / lands / substitute what they needed.

It is generally accepted that at the very beginning of the mentioned period, all the same Vikings made a sea voyage to Northern Aznata. Evidence of this is negligible, but they look quite unambiguous: the remains of several sites near the coast and legends recorded in the oral tradition of the Atkots, one of the largest North Aznati Alvian tribes.

Unfortunately, we don't know anything more. Neither the names of the expedition members, nor how they communicated with the local tribes, nor how long they stayed there ... And that is why our hands are untied as much as possible. So you should not take Mānihwarbą as something as reliable as possible from a historical point of view. This is a completely invented story, just driven into the historical framework in places.

We hope you enjoy it!