Re: Who are you?

I'm also a 25 y/o interested in Old English. I live in the U.S. and am a student of philosophy at George Mason University. It's ancient Greek philosophy that I love most, so I started to pick up various ancient Greek terms (e.g. sophrosyne) that don't have close modern equivalents. I found studying the language informative and almost as fun as studying philosophy. From there I took up Latin for a bit, and when in my studies German philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche came up, I had to learn a few German words.

It became clear to me that MnE contained words etymologically related to Greek, Latin and German, and those are the circumstances under which my interest in OE grew.