After a week or so, I found I could make myself understood in Italy by speaking Latin with a Hollywood gangster accent. Almost always worked. But, insight into how English works may be more significant. English is Viking-talk with a Latin overlay.
Yes… that’s the fascination of the North-Germanic (Icelandic, Norse, Anglo-Saxon) stuff as well. That it’s incredibly alien, but also strangely familiar. Tolkien’s fascination with that queer mixture led to the LotR, apparently
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The earliest Anglo-Saxon material comes from just the time of the switch over from pagan values to Christianity, and it expresses the confusion that engendered.
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_The Battle of Maldon_ describes the heroic confrontation of a semi-Christianized English Earl vs. a pagan Viking invasion force.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/814314255050686464 …
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