"This Saknussemm," he went on, "was a very well-informed man; now since he was not writing in his own mother tongue, he would naturally select that which was currently adopted by the choice spirits of the sixteenth century; I mean Latin.
—Saknussemm era un hombre instruido —prosiguió—, y, al no escribir en su lengua nativa, es de suponer que eligiera preferentemente el idioma que estaba en boga entre los espíritus cultos del siglo XVI, es decir, el latín.