Glosses

I have received confirmation for UNC Balkan conference. Next stage will be the actual writing; I have enough material for three articles!

Have discovered something in the Triads (Middle Welsh) which may become a paper for the Celtic conference in UCLA next spring (says Prof. Klar). I am undecided - have to dig further. Solicited Graham R. Isaak’s “The verb in the book of Aneirin” from Klar, have been reading it for the last two days.

There is a Saga Club meeting next week, and it’s my first time as the secretary. I have sent out the assignments, I think everything is going more or less smoothly although it’s too early to tell! We are reading Ynglinga Saga (first part of Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla), and have just reached the parts where Snorri incorporates stanzas from the poem Ynglingatal into his narrative. For the next reading, more than the half of the people got a chunk of poetry. I anticipate murmurings of dissent

Had a long and rather shaking talk with Prof. Timberlake about the nature of my Ph.D. There will be a change of topic. I am very satisfied, but it’s to early to talk about it in public. I hope to have more definite material written by March 7th.

My Croatian storyteller have e-mailed me with more info on her quest for Croatian folklore. I have just completed a paper on Croatian for pay, which forced me to re-read all the articles on Serbo-Croatian prosody. I have also re-read Lindsay Whaley’s standard textbook on typology, and although I don’t agree with it generally, I have stubled upon some thought-triggering ideas.

There was a Bulgarian party at Stiliana’s yesterday, complete with “horo” dancing, tasty banitsa, folk music, singing (we have two professional singers in our small class!) and a real folk costume (Stiliana’s). It was great fun