I was rather disappointed at University with the promised lectures/tutorials in Vulgar Latin. Not what I'd been expecting at all...

One or two Anglo-Saxon words are rather ...er ...useful.

My old father who came from way up in the north of Scotland (Caithness) always said his blond hair and pale blue eyes were Scandinavian, as his region had been invaded many times by marauding Vikings. I believed him, as I reckoned he would have looked quite at home in a horned helmet and brandishing an axe!