Never become a medievalist

what about sifting through 561 examples of the word 'grund', and through a list of several thousand OE texts, and ticking off where the two lists coincide, and then being expected to make intelligent assumptions about the textual contexts of the word 'grund' is supposed to be fun? or normal in any way?????

i wonder if anyone else in the class actually did this??? if, heaven forbid, they did *more*? perhaps they translated examples, as i started off trying to do and gave up?

my brain it pains now.

although i did figure out how we know so much about OE vocab, despite comparitively few texts- latin-OE dictionaries produced right throughout the period.