Well, I guess I should introduce myself as well...
 
My goals are a little odd, I'm a re-enactor, so I'd like to be able to actually speak some shared guess at Old Icelandic, in the way that ren-dancers have a shared guess at rendances which allows them to actually throw a ball and dance together all night.  Maybe in 50 years or so, I'll be close :).
 
I currently recite a few poems in Eng & OIce, and I've been "checking" translations for a while now -- and I virtually never quite manage to agree with the professionals.  Which says more about my personality than about either my knowledge of ON or the quality of the translations.  I've also been trying to read everything in ON first lately, rather than starting with a translation.  My understanding isn't _really_ up to this, but how else am I gonna get there? :)
 
I've been working on Haattatal a lot lately.  I'm trying to translate the first part of it into pictographs (which is what I do professionally).  I joined the list because a friend of mine (a boy -- go figure)  was playing the whetting woman with me and taunting me for being scared.
 
I suppose if I have a particular interest in the language(s), it's in the wierd double-entendre things that seem to happen constantly.  I have a tinsy bit of a whole lot of languages, but only my English is fluent.  My French has been in the past, but is not now.
 
Erm. Yeah. Something like that :)
-Unnr (Aka Meghan)
 
On 9/28/06, Diego <diegof@...> wrote:

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, mike garcia <exavierstud@...>
wrote:
>
> Heill list,
>
> I like to thank the group for my acceptance. My interest in
learning Old
> Norse has came from a very deep passion I have for the runes.
Learning as
> much as I have, I found myself in a stand-still. Not being able
to come
> to my own interpretations of the inscriptions. So I will have to
learn
> the lanuage to further in my studies.
>
> Thanking all once again.
>
> Heill ok vel,
>
> Mike

Sæll Mike,
and welcome to the group. I pick up your self-introduction to
introduce myself as well. I'm a student in Germanic Philology at
Bologna University, Italy, and I am currently spending an exchange
year in Norway at Oslo University to study Runology and Old Norse. I
entered the group for the first time a couple of years ago, when I
used to learn ON by myself; then I left, and now that I'm attending
university courses about it I've entered the group again. Since we
share common interests I'm looking forward to share ideas and
opinions with you through the group; I am currently working on a
review of all recent theories about runes' origins, trying to
demonstrate that runic script has come to the Germanics via Celtic
tribes in pre-Roman Gaul and Raetia which used both Greek and
Northern Etruscan alphabets. I hope that also someone else is
interested in the topic. What do you think about that?
Kveiðja,
Diego