In the second and final part of our interview with Jackson Crawford, Iceland News moves away from Star Wars to find out more about Crawford’s background. READ PART ONE HERE.
Saunders: How did you come to settle on Icelandic and Old Norse as an area of study?
Crawford: Well, I could tell that in a pretty long story, and I’m not sure how long of a story you want. I’ll try to keep it short. I was a dinosaur kid, interested especially in how dinosaurs evolved. When it came time to decide …

Jackson Crawford is a 24-year-old American studying Old Norse and Icelandic in Wisconsin. His post, Tattúínárdœla saga: If Star Wars Were an Icelandic Saga, has been making sounds right across the Internet. Jim Saunders caught up with Crawford in part one of a two part interview.

Saunders: Can you tell me a little bit more about how you came to write the post?
Crawford: It actually started with a really brief Facebook exchange with a colleague, Ben Frey. When I first joined Facebook 2 or so years ago, I wasn’t really …