Seeking your Old Saxon/Heliand Questions (Patreon)

Some time early in the new year, I'm planning to bring you a live interview opportunity with Professor Alex Sager from the University of Georgia (he made the extremely generous introduction of me before my talk at the University of Georgia in April). Unlike with some previous interviews, he's asked me to solicit your questions for that interview now so that he has plenty of time to consider how to answer them fully for you.

So if you have questions about the Old Saxon language--or its most famous poem, the Heliand, which can jokingly but not ineptly be described as "if Jesus were Beowulf"--let me have them in the comments here, and I'll pass them along to Prof. Sager so he knows exactly what you'd like to hear about. Of course, remember that Old Saxon is similar to but not identical to "Anglo-Saxon," i.e. Old English; Old Saxon is ancestral to the modern languages referred to as the dialects of "Low German."

Meanwhile, if you'd like to read Heliand, the only translation that's easy to get a hold of is Murphy's, though Tonya Kim Dewey's is quite good and useful if you can find it somewhere.

"ICYMI"

1. I still have some holiday cards so please send your address to Stella if you want one.

2. Our next scheduled live interview, on etymology with Danny Bate, is Sunday.

3. The last day I will sign books at Boulder Book Store this year will be next Thursday morning (the 15th).

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 or isn't 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.