Old Norse

By JAN TREFFER THOMPSON UNK Communications Megan Hartman’s journey toward a career in linguistics started at her father’s bookshelf. There, she saw a book cover with dark storm clouds splitting through a golden sky, and a luminous girl holding a black horse with a spiral horn. To the 5-year-old, “The Black Unicorn” by fantasy novelist Terry Brooks looked pretty cool. Mike Hartman read the book to his daughter. Then he kept going, well into Hartman’s high school … [Read more...] about The Heart of the Meter: Hartman explores poets’ ideas, not just their words