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Apr. 19th, 2015 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- Thanks again to everyone who gave me fantasy recommendations! I have so many things on hold right now - it's very exciting.
- While waiting for things on hold, I have checked out The Goblin Emperor, because it was immediately available in my library. I am about 150 pages in and, you guys, it is entirely delightful. And it feels weirdly novel to read a book about a protagonist who is so genuinely kind. I'm really enjoying it.
- On another note: a couple years ago, my sister gave me a textbook for learning Old Norse, which I have not previously gotten around to investigating in depth, but now I am working my way through it. And if you've ever thought you'd like to learn Old Norse - which I realize is not actually a goal a lot of people have - this book is pretty great. And because it assumes that you're learning Old Norse so that you can read the sagas (since no one speaks it anymore) all the vocab comes from the sagas. Which means that I know how to say "settler" and "king" and "man of accomplishment" by chapter two but not, I don't know, "mother" or "house".
- I totally have a particular saga I'm excited about reading once I have enough Old Norse under my belt, too. It is Þiðrekssaga, which I've wanted to read for a while and which has not, as far as I can tell, been translated into English, though you can find the Old Norse easily online. Look at the description on wikipedia - dragons, Niflungs, Attila, and death-by-horse-that-turns-out-to-be-the-devil. Also, in some sources, Þiðrek can evidently breathe fire (though I don't know if that's true in this saga). It sounds amazing.
- The family and I are going to a baseball game today! I...do not really care about sports, but I enjoy going to games. Today, we are going to see the Tacoma Raniers, which should be fun.
- Thanks again to everyone who gave me fantasy recommendations! I have so many things on hold right now - it's very exciting.
- While waiting for things on hold, I have checked out The Goblin Emperor, because it was immediately available in my library. I am about 150 pages in and, you guys, it is entirely delightful. And it feels weirdly novel to read a book about a protagonist who is so genuinely kind. I'm really enjoying it.
- On another note: a couple years ago, my sister gave me a textbook for learning Old Norse, which I have not previously gotten around to investigating in depth, but now I am working my way through it. And if you've ever thought you'd like to learn Old Norse - which I realize is not actually a goal a lot of people have - this book is pretty great. And because it assumes that you're learning Old Norse so that you can read the sagas (since no one speaks it anymore) all the vocab comes from the sagas. Which means that I know how to say "settler" and "king" and "man of accomplishment" by chapter two but not, I don't know, "mother" or "house".
- I totally have a particular saga I'm excited about reading once I have enough Old Norse under my belt, too. It is Þiðrekssaga, which I've wanted to read for a while and which has not, as far as I can tell, been translated into English, though you can find the Old Norse easily online. Look at the description on wikipedia - dragons, Niflungs, Attila, and death-by-horse-that-turns-out-to-be-the-devil. Also, in some sources, Þiðrek can evidently breathe fire (though I don't know if that's true in this saga). It sounds amazing.
- The family and I are going to a baseball game today! I...do not really care about sports, but I enjoy going to games. Today, we are going to see the Tacoma Raniers, which should be fun.
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Date: 2015-04-19 03:17 pm (UTC)