Jackson Crawford

The words for “(tame) reindeer” in Finnish and Sami remind us of the astonishingly strong linguistic evidence that speakers of these languages were in close contact in prehistory with speakers of early *Iranian* languages! More at youtu.be/AbXUr85eq7g

Superstar Erling Haaland has given his hometown an Old Norse book. What is it? A 1594 printing of a Danish/Dano-Norwegian translation of Heimskringla, the sagas of the kings of Norway written by Icelander Snorri Sturluson in the 1220s. The 1594 Danish is still easily understood by a Norwegian today.