A Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

How many of us bother to give any thought to the words we speak? We babble away, generally in ignorance of linguistic intricacies. Though I myself, in my far-off younger years, taught English at ...

When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote “Lord of the Rings,” he didn’t just give his characters any name he felt like. All the names of people, things and places come from real people, old languages or languages ...

“Trust” is a subject of endless fascination. From how to cultivate it to how to earn it back, how to be more trusting of others and how to trust your gut. But the meaning of the word itself is another ...

About the book: The Wanderer's Hávamál features Jackson Crawford’s complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hávamál, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...