á deildinni

I remember years ago being introduced and thinking I might lose consciousness from the strain of trying to make myself understood in a language I had not really begun to be able to speak. I remember that he replied, and I understood what he said, but at the time I did not know what language he was speaking. It might have been either of two he spoke, but all my attention was on understanding and making myself understood, and none on noticing what sorts of words, sounds, grammar were actually in use.

Now I suppose I'll never know.