@finnlongman I just love how many different perspectives people bring to Celtic Studies (and especially the Ulster Cycle, for my own selfish reasons!). Coming from linguistics, and especially Indo-European Studies, I spend a lot of time thinking about patterns and what to compare and why. I also think a lot about what words mean and how we know what they mean and how meanings shift in some pretty unpredictable ways. It's part of why I'm thinking now about the parts of stories that aren't actually expressed in words - the assumed knowledge and the connections that audiences are supposed to make on their own and how they learn to make those connections. I read a really interesting article about experiments on how readers imagine stories and how a lot of the time they'll just imagine the world of the story as being as close as possible to the real world unless they are explicitly told otherwise in the story.
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