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[nerak_rose]

I have the same prof for my Old Icelandic course as for my Modern Icelandic course. I name him Lupin. This is of no significance.

Yesterday we were working on Auðunr þáttr in Old Icelandic. In it, Audun has to meet King Harald of Norway because he's bought a bear. He goes to see the king and tells him that he's taking the bear to King Sveinn of

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[kori_to_kukki]

i don't get the last one ._. are you german? ôo
but the rest is funny^^

[kori_to_kukki]

i'm german and study japanese... i still don't get it ._.
maybe i'm just dumb today.
but thanks for trying to explain it to me :)

[marie1964]

Totally loving your userpic.

lol at the death wish comment.

LOL at the German comment.

[kori_to_kukki]

explain the german one for? i don't get it T__T

[kaesa]

The thing the professor wants to talk about in Old Norse grammar has something similar in German, and so after he has gone on about it for far too long without comparing it with a modern language, he has the amazing idea of comparing it to German! Except then he isn't sure anyone studies German, so his metaphor might fall just as flat as his previous explanation. So he's all "PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS, KNOW ABOUT GERMAN, SO AT LEAST YOU HAPPY FEW WILL KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT AND WE CAN ALL MOVE ON. D:"

[nerak_rose]

exactly this. :)

though what makes it funnier is that in denmark (where i live and go to uni) german is spoken by something like 70% of the population as either german or french is mandatory in elementary school (most people don't have the choice and have to go with german), so "everyone" does speak german. lupin is from iceland where german isn't mandatory, but an elective language in high school, so he wouldn't have known that he could've used german far earlier in the class to make us understand. XD (somehow he seems to forget this very important fact every class. XD)