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You know, I’ve always nwedored about Australian history of course I’ll have to confess nearly complete ignorance, and that’s lamentable. But it doesn’t even draw Australians? Wow. What historical topics do Australians seem to like, if any?About Danish: I think it was in my second semester of grad school when I became so obsessed with Danish history that I just *had* to pursue it, though it disappointed my doktorvater, Rothenberg, who wanted me to do something more Napoleonic and something with Dutch history (I already had German, French, Latin, and Dutch under my belt). As soon as I resolved to work in Danish history, the first thing I did was find the one faculty member at Purdue who spoke/read Danish (a prof in the German department), who told me to get Bredsdorff’s grammar and a Gyldendals dictionary, and I taught myself. Since I already had German and Dutch it wasn’t all that difficult not to read, anyway. The really difficult pronunciation of spoken Danish came as a rude shock to me when I first went to Copenhagen in 1988.Even more shocking was the realization that I couldn’t do Danish history without at least a reading knowledge of Swedish, Norwegian (in various incarnations), Icelandic, and possibly Faroese. Fortunately they’re closely enough related that it wasn’t *too* hard.Like you blog, by the way. Thanks for the compliment. P
You know, I’ve always nwedored about Australian history of course I’ll have to confess nearly complete ignorance, and that’s lamentable. But it doesn’t even draw Australians? Wow. What historical topics do Australians seem to like, if any?About Danish: I think it was in my second semester of grad school when I became so obsessed with Danish history that I just *had* to pursue it, though it disappointed my doktorvater, Rothenberg, who wanted me to do something more Napoleonic and something with Dutch history (I already had German, French, Latin, and Dutch under my belt). As soon as I resolved to work in Danish history, the first thing I did was find the one faculty member at Purdue who spoke/read Danish (a prof in the German department), who told me to get Bredsdorff’s grammar and a Gyldendals dictionary, and I taught myself. Since I already had German and Dutch it wasn’t all that difficult not to read, anyway. The really difficult pronunciation of spoken Danish came as a rude shock to me when I first went to Copenhagen in 1988.Even more shocking was the realization that I couldn’t do Danish history without at least a reading knowledge of Swedish, Norwegian (in various incarnations), Icelandic, and possibly Faroese. Fortunately they’re closely enough related that it wasn’t *too* hard.Like you blog, by the way. Thanks for the compliment. P