This is a short update. The semester has started and I…am…tired. Still, before my eyes close… My foray into Old Norse continues–the grammar is very difficult, the pronunciation nearly impossible (and unknowable, aside from the modern Icelandic tongue), and I keep getting distracted by all those wondrous kennings. A kenning is a word-as-metaphor, often hyphenated, [...]
Published on September 09, 2011 04:17