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Again, that's Noah at the History of Vikings.com. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Jackson Crawford,

and this man really needs no introduction, but he is an Old Norse specialist and translator

teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder, formerly UC Berkeley and UCLA.

As many of you know, he runs an awesome YouTube channel with almost 60,000 subscribers

passionately making videos. And I know many of you are extremely familiar with his YouTube

channel. I know I am. And of course, you can find anything under the sun in

terms of Norse Smith or Old Norse. So I will definitely put a link to his YouTube channel in the

description of the show. He is also written a translation of the Poetic Eta, as well as the Saga

of the Volsungs, which I highly recommend. In fact, I just ordered my copy of the Poetic

out of this morning. So you'll find, of course, links to both of those in the description of the

show. But Dr. Jackson Crawford, thank you so much for joining me today. Well, thank you for your

friendly welcome. It's my pleasure. So I guess my first question to you, Dr. Crawford, would be,

you know, we've talked about the Norse myths quite extensively

on my show. We've talked about the Vikings quite extensively, but we haven't really touched on

Old Norse, which I know you, of course, are a specialist in. So could you just sort of tell us,

you know, what was Old Norse? Was it the language of the Vikings? Did they communicate to one another in Old Norse?

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