I’m looking around online for editions of the Hrafnistumannasǫgur—which is a perfectly normal thing to do on Friday night; I don’t care what the kids down at the sock hop say—and I found a pretty decent edition for the third and maybe most famous saga in the series, Ǫrvar-Odds saga. It was apparently the Ph.D. dissertation of a Dutch guy named Richard Boer in the 19th C. Leaving the Boer War and cruel puns about academic bores out of it, I was most struck by the guy who oversaw the dissertation, that magnificus rector (Everything Is Better With Latin!™), that hoogleeraar (which I know is hoog “high” plus leeraar “teacher”, but which my brain persists in reading as HOOGLE HAR), Doctor A. P. Fokker. Truly a magnificent Fokker, as I’m sure we can all agree.
