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Mar 15, 2011 16:21

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 ( Read more... )

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marie1964 March 15 2011, 16:32:25 UTC

Totally loving your userpic.

lol at the death wish comment.

LOL at the German comment.

kori_to_kukki March 15 2011, 17:15:52 UTC

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

kaesa March 16 2011, 02:23:39 UTC

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 March 16 2011, 08:47:54 UTC

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)

kaesa March 16 2011, 13:34:36 UTC

Okay, that makes it ten times funnier. I'd assumed it was a class in the US, so you'd get a small but decent percentage of people who studied German in high school/college, but that sounds like it's asking if anyone knows first aid in an advanced medical course.

nerak_rose March 16 2011, 15:35:16 UTC

yeah, something like that. XD even people who sucked at german have a rudimentary grasp of it, so... XD

kori_to_kukki March 17 2011, 15:14:17 UTC

aah, now i get it, thank you so much!
that's actually really funny :D

nerak_rose March 16 2011, 08:48:19 UTC

thanks XD

i love lupin, really... XD

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