First Experimental Old Norse Grammar Workshop (Patreon)

First off, thank you for your continued support! March and April have added a pile of travel obligations on top of my usual tendency to overcommit on projects, so I haven't been even as close to my computer as I normally am (above is a photo of me with some of my own favorite professors and one former classmate at the University of Georgia, where I was speaking over the weekend). Hopefully not too many of you believed that I was quitting on you five days ago.

Second, I want to try hosting an "Old Norse Grammar Workshop" as I've been alluding to now and then, but I haven't been able to be free during a convenient time for every possible time zone. Instead of waiting for that elusive day to arrive, I'm going to go ahead and host a first experimental Old Norse grammar workshop this Saturday, the 9th of April, at 3:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain time. I'm aware this is not a really convenient time for people elsewhere in the world (that'll be 23:00/11:00 p.m. on the 9th in Stockholm, for example, and 7:00 a.m. on the 10th in Sydney). But I want to give the format a try, and hopefully I can help clear up some questions for those of you who have been working your way through my Old Norse lessons (or perhaps through a book, like Barnes's or Gorton's). And hopefully this proof of concept will help show if this is something worth continuing to try in subsequent weeks and months as well.

The format will be "office hours-" like. I'll stay online for at least an hour, or more (up to two hours) if people keep coming or asking questions. I won't "assign" you material or anything, but if you have an Old Norse text you're trying to read, we can look at that together, or I can offer some clarity (hopefully) on grammar questions that have been bugging you. I might record it, just in case the questions are ones that I think a lot of other people might also have and thus might be worthy to share on Youtube later. If you don't want to be potentially recorded, let me know of course, and I won't share any part of it with you speaking.

The Zoom link for the meeting is: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93498783045 and the passcode is: vinr

While I'm on the subject of Zoom: our next Zoom interview with an expert will be with Dr. Andrew Byrd, an Indo-Europeanist at the University of Kentucky. I think you'll really enjoy talking with him; he was a consultant on Far Cry: Primal, and is one of the few people who really indulges in the "fun" side of these things, recording stories in spoken Proto-Indo-European for example. That will be on the following Saturday, April 16, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time. The Zoom link for that interview will be https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/91884489120 with passcode: primal and I'll post another reminder about that before it happens, too.

All the best for now, and thank you as always for your kindness and generosity,

Jackson Crawford

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