Words of the Week: heita, gera, ó, i-stems (Patreon)

The Old Norse lesson that Patreon's getting early this week is a grab bag, covering a few unrelated small categories of words that are frequent and have to be discussed eventually somewhere. So they might as well be discussed together. The private Patreon link to the early lesson is on Vimeo here. 

Recent regular videos have included the public posting of our Crowdcast with Dr. Vicki Grove on Slavic folklore and its Norse connections, a look at the linguistic differences between Old Norse and its immediate predecessor, Proto-Norse, the language of the Elder Futhark (this includes my rendering of Hávamál 77 in Proto-Norse in Elder Futhark), a rant about how there is no ultimate point in the past and our desire for one makes us get discrete periods of the past wrong, the public posting of Old Norse lesson 13 on weak adjectives and nouns, a response to the frequent Patreon question about why Odin seems different in the sagas from in Hávamál, a ".5" Old Norse lesson about how homonyms in one language aren't homonyms in another, a remake of my "biggest misconceptions about Norse myth" video that's intermittently popular, and a reflection on five years of being sober.

I guess I post a lot of videos. But that last one was extra personal, and I hesitated about posting it at all before deciding it might offer encouragement to someone who needed it.

Meanwhile, I hope all of you are finding the encouragement you need, and thank you for continuing to provide me with yours.

All the best for now,

Jackson Crawford