Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Explore the metal-crushing metaphors and poetic riddles of Old English known as Kennings. From the "whale-road" to the "bone-house", discover how these linguistic puzzles function and why ancient poets preferred…
Old English possessed a grammatical rarity called the "dual number", using specific pronouns—*wit* (we two) and *git* (you two)—to refer exclusively to pairs. This article explores how these lost words…
Before writing, societies preserved immense libraries of knowledge within the human mind. The "unwritten archive" of oral tradition wasn't based on an innate super-memory, but on a sophisticated linguistic scaffolding.…
Forget Shakespeare. If you traveled back to 1000 AD, you'd find a language that sounds more like German and has more in common with Viking sagas than a sonnet. This…
We can read the words of Beowulf, but what did this ancient ancestor of English actually sound like? By using linguistic reconstruction, we can uncover the lost phonetics of Old…