You actually find yourself enjoying bits of Latin that you're reading for class:

Olim Sanctus Columba in provincia Pictorum per aliquot dies manebat et necesse habuit transire fluvium Nesam. Ubi ad ripam advenit, vidit aliquos ex incolis huius regionis specatre miserum homunculum quem ut incolae ipsi dicebant, natantem paulo ante in fluvio, aquatilis bestia dentibus magnis mormorderat. Vir sanctus haec audiens, iussit unum ex comitibus suis ad alteram ripam natare et navigium, quod ibi stabat, ad se reducere. Comes ille, nomine Lugneus Mocumin, sine mora vestimenta exuit et, tunicam solum gerens, inmittit se in aquam.

Once upon a time, Saint Columba was staying the province of the Picts for several days and needed to cross the River Ness. When he came to the bank, he saw several of the native people of that region watching a piteous little man whom, as the locals were saying, while swimming in the river a little before, a watery beast with large teeth had bitten. The holy man, hearing this, ordered one of his companions to swim to the other bank and bring back to him the little boat that was moored there. His companion, named Lugneus Mocumin, took off his clothes without delay, and, wearing only his tunic, threw himself into the water.

Yes, that's right folks. Quite possibly one of the earliest accounts of the Loch Ness Monster.

How cool is that?