dan donoghue talking about how the few norse words in the battle of maldon making it the first english work involving dialects, which seems to be enlistable on the side of a multilingual thesis.

learning to find my way around old english makes me miss latin. i should keep it up before i forget all of it again.

old english poetry has for me a slightly piecemeal feel but latin seems always to come out like a well-done sum.