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Red Gold: A Patreon Interview with Willow Groundwater-Schuldt! (Patreon)

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2022-06-10 15:47:21
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On Sunday the 12th at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Mountain time we'll have another Patreon-exclusive interview with a scholar, this time with Willow Groundwater-Schuldt, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo. Willow has been working on the question of why gold is described as red in old Germanic languages like Old Norse and Old English, which intersects quite a bit with my own research. I think it'll be an interesting conversation about color in these languages, and about the practices and pitfalls of reading and translating languages that are no longer spoken in general. So come if you're able, and if not, feel free to share questions for Willow or me in the comments to this post and I'll try to get them asked if they don't otherwise come up!

The Zoom link for this interview is https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94786541861 and the password is: redgold

By the way, I know this announcement is a little late and I apologize for that. It took longer than usual to put the pieces together for this one.

Thank you as always for your generous support, and all the best for now,

Jackson Crawford

P.S. My Patreon messages don't work. I don't get  notifications for them, and there's nothing on my home page to show me when there is a  message. I can't even always see them when I check for them manually, and you won't see it if I reply! The best ways  to get in touch are: a) just to comment on posts like this, b)  to post in the  Community page, or c) to email my assistant Stella at [admin  AT JacksonWCrawford.com]--remember the 'W' between my first and last names in that domain name.

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Anonymous

Going to try for this but after the last two I don’t wanna make a liar out of myself. Again. I’m sure this has been asked and answered and I’m sorry, but is your dissertation available to read?

Anonymous
>>85648447

It is indeed (download link's a bit hard to see because it's just a text link, but should be on the left hand side): https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/5m60qr961

Anonymous
>>85648447

His Norwegian paper on the topic is also on his academia, if you can read Norwegian! https://www.academia.edu/10741757/Bl%C3%A5e_og_svarte_augo_skipnaden_av_fargeuttrykk_i_norr%C3%B8nt

Cameron Paterson

My (rather obvious I guess) question was covered by the answers to the preceding questions so ended up being something of an anticlimax - and then looking this morning at the screenshots I see it was covered by a page in her presentation too! Clearly I wasn't paying sufficient attention there! Ah well 🙃 Interesting topic nevertheless - a thought-provoking sideways look at the psychology of medieval people. I'm glad I tuned in

Anonymous
>>85648447

240 pages... my goodness lol. It’s Monday morning, I think this afternoon I’ll fix a drink and take my phone outside to read (with a fan, because holy shitballs it’s hot) and have a me a nice read. And Blake, no, I can’t read Norwegian unfortunately, although I wish I could. But I have a feeling even half the English version will still go over my head lol.

Anonymous
>>85648447

Welp I got to page 14 and had to go back and re-read, to get a better understanding of the chart I was looking at. I think it’s safe to say it’s going to take me awhile to get through it with a reasonable comprehension of what I’m reading. You are definitely a smarter man than I. But, it’s very interesting. I’ve said this before, languages coupled with the passage of time are a true rabbit hole. Absolutely nothing is what it used to be, even English (and I say English just because that’s my native tongue).

Anonymous
>>85648447

FWIW, while they're (perhaps obviously) much shorter summaries of his thesis or points in it, Dr. Crawford's "Colors in Old Norse" ( https://youtu.be/ZJVp-dtCbfc ) and "Old Norse Had a Word for Blue" ( https://youtu.be/fIuqaKLTjsQ ) cover some main points, and at least for me sometimes having some sort of a baseline for approach can be helpful. With that said, I think Dr. Crawford's said similarly in the past, but I reread stuff all the time-- I even have a folder on my laptop of stuff I need to come back to, whether it's because I need to do more research on certain points, or I think sitting on it for a while and returning would be helpful, or even just because I really enjoyed it, because I find even with stuff I've read a million times I'll sometimes do another readthrough and notice something I absolutely hadn't before. Taking one's time and being willing to revisit things are honestly some important best practices, so I think you've got a reasonable approach going here.

Anonymous
>>85648447

I’ve seen both videos, and the color one is one of the very first I watched, as a matter of fact. That’s what made me... I don’t know... latch on to him, I guess? That sounds so damn weird, but he sounded like he knew what he was talking about, and once I find something I like I tend to stick with it and quit looking for other sources. Now here we are, 5 years of videos and 2 years of Patreon (for me) later lol. I’m definitely going to have to take my time with the paper, but that’s ok. It’s fascinating to me that one specific topic can produce such a lengthy explanation.