Introduction to Ancient Norse Mythology
Why I didn’t graduate with honors
It was the second to final semester. I needed one comparative literature class that fit my schedule and couldn’t believe my luck when I found this one that met on a Friday (yeah, we’ll get back to that). Classes were generally on Monday/Wednesday or Tuesday/Thursday. This was an incredibly good fit with my job.
“Introduction to Ancient Norse Mythology”; how fun! Odin, Loki, Freya, Sleipnir, Odin’s 8-legged horse! This was going to be great.
You know there’s a catch coming, right?
We were reading these sagas in the archaic form of Icelandic in which they had originally been written. The reason the class met on Friday was to allow linguist majors from Princeton to come up and attend.
I had no business being in that class.
I didn’t even know what a noun case was. For those so masochistically inclined, here’s the full scoop:
