Patreon Vocabulary 17: Birds (Patreon)

Here's the Patreon-exclusive Old Norse vocabulary video for this week, looking at birds.

It's that time of the year when work for the school winds down as every other kind of work grinds into faster gear. The Great Courses, the next book, more videos every week, and even additional work for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla . . . it's no summer "break" like people often imagine it to be for people working in universities.

Of course, as I've mentioned for about six months now, my relationship to the University of Colorado changes as of the end of this semester. I am no longer affiliated with the Nordic Program here and I am no longer teaching courses, but instead have accepted an unpaid position as Resident Scholar at the university's Center of the American West. This means that, for at least a year or so, I am effectively a full-time public educator, attempting to support myself with my many outside projects. A nervous time for me, but perhaps this will be an interesting experiment for other people with similar academic backgrounds to observe, at least.

I hope you're all doing well out there and I wish you all the very best this summer,

Jackson Crawford