Meaning “to see or observe something remarkable,” from Old English behealdan. Used to express awe, as in “Behold the beauty ...

Jackson Crawford, director of CU’s Nordic Studies program, studies and translates Old Norse, a language spoken by medieval Scandinavians. Here the native Coloradan talks Vikings, videos and his ...

Language is like a living organism, it changes, grow, and evolves over time. And yet, a few words from times long past have ...

When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote “Lord of the Rings,” he didn’t just give his characters any name he felt like. All the names of people, things and places come from real people, old languages or languages ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

How many of us bother to give any thought to the words we speak? We babble away, generally in ignorance of linguistic intricacies. Though I myself, in my far-off younger years, taught English at ...

VIKINGS season 6, part B is coming to History US and Amazon Prime later this year. Before the final episodes of the last series arrives, fans are curious to know more about the infamous Norsemen. What ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and ...