@petitmelon said in If you could send one book across time and space to Myne, what would you pick?:

How to invent everything-- A guide for the stranded time traveler

That is a good call, though I am thinking "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" just to see Ferdinand's reaction to it's translated version.

@Shiny said in Re Rereading while taking notes:

Fantasy speculation - if weather impacts on the protection shield around the city then this might be detectable by those with low levels of mana who have higher levels of mana sensitivity.

Supporting that is that both Rozemyne and Bezewanst have been mentioned being unable to predict the weather while Rozemyne's commoner circle can predict the weather easily.

@Jon-Mitchell I kinda like the idea of Arno being sold as a worker for a salt mine. (rub salt into the wounds comes to mind)

@Shiny You do see what the writing system looks like in the light novel too (when Myne is sitting on Fernidad's lap reading, it also shows the book). In that case, the writing system actually looks kind of like a mix of Arabic and Hebrew.

As far as the original question goes, I'd assume the language sounds pretty German/Austrian since so many of the words are German-based. I don't think we can really make a good guess as to a time period since there really is no reason why the German language of 1,000 years ago could be the language of today and 1000 years ago German sounded completely different.

Languages tend to change by incorporating exterior languages into their syntax and vocab (one of the reasons English is such a cluster F is because of the long history of various countries and tribes conquering Britain) on top of just slightly changing from generation to generation. So, in that sense, you would probably have to know the geopolitical history of the nation that Efre (whatever the spelling) belongs to as well as what their neighbors' languages were like.

TL;DR - Probably vaguely German, but no real way to compare to RL.

@dawnmm Thank you! in the next parts this "Mynester" will be a bit prominent.

I enjoyed the story. It's fun imagining what other nobles will think of the books. And the cookies. :) Thanks for sharing.

@crowdcontrol
Yes. Look at the last paragraph of the afterward of the manga. Miya Kazuki explicitly states that Zeg is a character that hasn't appeared in the LN at all.

@hiroto Yeah, if I don't recognize it myself I check the wiki.

@crowdcontrol Oh, huh. These errors have been fixed going into the finalized epub version, but have not been reflected on the website yet. Thanks for reporting it and reminding us, though. I'll try to get it all up-to-date soon.