Karl carefully opened the book and looked at the first page. The letters were unfamiliar, but the more that he looked at them, the more sense they made.
He assumed that the system would do all of the translating for him, the way that it did with spoken languages. So he simply waited, and examined the first page until it began to make sense.
It didn't.
At least, not in any meaningful way. But most of the language was based on Runic, so Karl was slowly able to make out two thirds of what he assumed that it was saying, and then guess at the rest.
"Can you read that?" One of the clerics asked as Karl flipped to the second page.
"Mostly. It's not a language that I would claim to know, and I get the feeling that I am missing a huge amount of context to the words as I read them. But I can follow the descriptions well enough to at least tell what it is talking about.