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Chapter 118
Nothing could be more logical. "Now," said Professor Hardwigg, "to trace the particular language." "As Shakespeare says, 'that is the question,"' was my rather satirical reply. "This man Saknussemm," he continued, "was a very learned man: now as he did not write in the language of his birthplace, he probably, like most learned men of the sixteenth century, wrote in Latin. If, however, I prove wrong in this guess, we must try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, and even Hebrew. My own opinion, though, is decidedly in favor of Latin." This proposition startled me. Latin was my favorite study, and it seemed sacrilege to believe this gibberish to belong to the country of Virgil. "Barbarous Latin, in all probability," continued my uncle, "but still Latin." "Very probably," I replied, not to
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