--- 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