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Today’s Patreon Words of the Week are all strong verbs, which are covered in the Old Norse lesson you’re getting early this week: lesson no. 6, on our first strong verbs

The Old Norse lesson you got early last week, no. 5 on the verb “be, is, are,” etc., has been made private again on Youtube so that I can schedule it for public release this week (for some reason, a video can’t be both “unlisted” and “scheduled;” the scheduled feature only works if it’s currently set as private). This is because I won’t have predictable or constant internet access this week, so in case I can’t get online much at all, at least the videos for this week are all scheduled to go up at their regular times without me. If you need it in the next few days, you can still watch lesson 5 on my backup Vimeo channel here before it goes public on Youtube.

By the way, because I am not really online very often, remember that Patreon messages go to me and will often be answered relatively slowly (in the order that I receive them and the other things in my email, on the occasions when I can get to them). Stella can answer many questions about Patreon and my previous videos, and knows a lot about myth and the Eddas, and usually answers faster than I do, at admin@jacksonwcrawford.com .

In other news, my sponsors at Grimfrost have launched a Kickstarter for their long-secret movie project, Fated. As you’d expect from Grimfrost, they want to go above and beyond in all things authentic, and they hired me to translate all the dialogue(!) into Old Swedish, which the actors have worked hard at to make sound natural. Check out the Kickstarter for more details about this ambitious and growing project.

For now, all the best, and thank you for another week of your generous support!

Jackson Crawford

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Anonymous

As a quick addition/tip, if anyone does need to contact me at the email address, I do answer Patreon questions first, so putting "Patreon" in the subject or mentioning that you're a Patron will help you get a reply even quicker. 🙂 (I do try to remember names, but since there's over 1500 folks here and I haven't interacted with everyone, there is admittedly a chance I may not know it's Patreon-related otherwise)

Anonymous

What was the name of the very particular gentleman? Jonson?

Anonymous

My apologies. At about 5:43 you mention someone who is very particular about words. His name sounds liken Johnson. I didn’t quite catch his name.

norsebysw

Oh, Finnur Jónsson. An editor of Old Norse texts from about a century ago who had a habit of converting words to more archaic forms and of printing some vowel distinctions that no one else ever caught on to.