The Word-Hord: Daily Life in Old English, by Hana Videen, is one of my favorite books of the decade. The words she gives us, drawn from food and drink, learning, working, relationships, health, and more, "tell a story about the English language, how the language of Beowulf morphed into the words and phrases we use today. They also reveal piece by piece the history of the people who inhabited early medieval England, how they worked and played, imagined and prayed—the history of their thoughts."
NauenThen
Jeg snakker norsk!
August 21, 2015
Stave church in Norway, which I learned about from my language course.
Well, it's not so much that I speak Norwegian as that I am learning Norwegian. It was a random thing, as my sister turned me on to the terrific language app DuoLingo, and I lit on Norwegian. I can almost read a thriller in Norwegian so it's working. And thrilling.
You can really see the Anglo-Saxon roots of (connection to?) English in it, with many similar words, like hus/house.
I did study some Old English not long ago. Read More
You can really see the Anglo-Saxon roots of (connection to?) English in it, with many similar words, like hus/house.
I did study some Old English not long ago. Read More