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Romance. Germanic (esp. Old Norse, some early medieval 'German') in close second. I've always felt that though I have British, Irish, and German roots, Rome was the source of my spiritual and intellectual heritage. The aesthetics of Hellenism, of which Romanitas is a sort of offshoot, has always appealed to me very deeply.
I'm interested also in the Norse, in Skaldic poetry, and in their traditional insult poetry (a kind of Norse proto-rap). I also listened to a lecture on early medieval German kinship and how it different from later times when other homogenizing, continental forces came into play.
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