Title: Philologists around the world
Review: ... will be utterly shocked to discover that, in Sandra Hill's linguistic universe at least, Old Norse is quite similar to Modern English! In fact, when a viking is miraculously transplanted to modern Hollywood, he can understand almost every word!Who would have thought?Not me, that's for sure. I barely choked down the first chapter, and continued reading the book simply for the fact that I wanted more things to chuckle about later on. Now obviously, there's a bit of "suspend your disbelief" that needs to occur, but too much of it for my taste.At least it's funny -- though perhaps not in ways the author intended.
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