Besides, Hrothgar, wouldn't they have to learn a Nordic tongue?

Seriously, with a handle like that you might like to check out a disk that Sequentia (a great early music group) put out of ancient Icelandic (I think) tales and music. I haven't looked for it since I bought it, but if you plug in Sequentia, cdnow or amazon or somebody oughtta have it. I'd have to rummage round to find it and give you more details, but I will, if you're interested and can't track the thing down.

You know, I found I could understand a fair amount of written Icelandic and some Norwegian from having had a couple of years of German, being an English speaker, and having studied a little bit of Anglo-Saxon on my own. My best school friend and I used to write all our notes to each other in runes, so even if intercepted they'd be unintelligible!

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