Nelson Goering is probably hiking as this photo is being shot. He's got an excited, clear-eyed expression, he's wearing a warm hat and a blue parka, and we see scrub and rocks on a slope behind him. He looks like he's having the best time ever!

Nelson Goering, PhD

Dr. Nelson Goering hails from the Ocooch Mountains in Wisconsin, and holds a DPhil in Comparative Philology and General Linguistics from the University of Oxford. His research interests centre on the linguistics of the older Germanic and Indo-European languages, and he has a particular love for Old English, Old Norse, Gothic, and Avestan.

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