Welcome to the Nordic mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farron, on the coming at Hans

of Odin. Today I'm joined by a very special guest Krista Vasshus. Is it okay?

That's very good. Good good. And Krista can you just tell people a little bit about who you are, what you spend? it. You got my name. Krista Vassus, I am an Norwegian interdisciplinary scholar. I've been educated as a linguist or the Nordic study, so Scandinavian studies in languages.

I've had a focus on place names and personal names and the whole long linguistic history of the Scandinavian languages, which has led me to take an interest in the deep history of the languages and prehistory of languages,

the development of, you know, not just Norwegian or Scandinavian but you know proton language

stages like proto Germanic even even Indo-European.

So compared to my colleagues who all, at least from the university that I have been working at the most,

university in Belgen.

They consider me a bit old-fashioned

because I deal with this old things, ruins and stuff like this,

very, very ancient but but you know having had that interest it's led me into

into the path of runology, which is deeply fascinating.

And we've been so lucky that we've had a couple of really interesting runic finds and I've been invited as you know the linguists who

will try and reconstruct or figure out what what's these small pieces of language that we have

chiseled into stone and gold. What does it mean?

Yeah, so when you got into linguistics, is that, I'm sure how does that work, do you just

study, is it just a study of languages as a as an overall thing because obviously how do you get into doing things that you do now where it's

specializing in languages from 1500 years ago?

Yeah. My way into it was considering being a Norwegian teacher.

Okay.

That's what most people I've shared the education with ended up as either as scholars or Norwegian teachers.

As it, when you say a Norwegian teacher is in...

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