Old Norse – Lingoblog

Snow: the word’s effect

12/04/201913/02/2019 by Carl Masthay

Back when I was a teenager at Pratt’s Corner in Southington, Connecticut, I grew up in an old homestead built in 1827 by Seth Pratt on seven acres of farmland and an expansive forest. It was perhaps when I was 14, or in 1955, in my early high-school days, there … ↪

Ragnarǫk at the University of Copenhagen? The ideology of closing down smaller language programmes

26/06/201828/06/2018 by Richard Cole

The closure of Old Norse, Old Danish, modern Icelandic, and Faroese as elective courses at the University of Copenhagen is sad news indeed, that has also been covered also in the daily press. That this is a deeply misguided decision will almost certainly be self-evident to readers of Lingoblog. … ↪