I'll always love the old farmhouse and its stories.
My mom's family's farm was sold a few years ago, and my uncle finally moved out last spring. A couple of weeks ago, when Mom was out visiting, we went driving with another one of her sibs to check out the old homestead, and found everything torn down and the new subdivision is already going up. Mom and her sister had to spend a few minutes figuring out where the house had been based on the one tree that they recognized that was still standing.
A huge shock to me, even though I knew that everything was going to be gone. Gramma never redecorated that house, and her eldest son who lived there after she died had let it go quite a bit, but I have such fond memories of holidays and summer weekends spent exploring the attic and climbing the apple trees, washing the green apples in the wellwater and getting sick from too many of them, playing b-ball in the hayloft amidst the parish school's desks that were stored up there after the school remodeled.
I did memorize the Prologue in Middle English for one of my undergrad classes, though, which is useful only so far as it baffles high school students.
I love Chaucer!! Memorizing the opening section of the Prologue (up to "A knight there was, and that a worthy man, that fro the time he first began to riden out he loved chivalrie, trouth and honour, fredom and courtesie" and that's all I know) was very helpful for me to handle the rest of the semester's Middle English. It was also fun for when some local radio hosts had a segment about "what stupid thing do you still remember from school?"
For some reason, Gawain and the Green Knight was totally incomprehensible to me. I gave up and got a modern translation.
G&tGK is written in a northern non-London dialect, so it's pretty incomprehensible to just about everyone who's not an expert in that dialect. My book has the dialect on the even pages and the modern translation on the odd ones.
I was seriously considering auditing a class on Old English in my senior year, but my advisor talked me out of it, which was probably a good idea for my GPA, but I still wish I had taken it.