His language of expertise was Latin. Which surprisingly came in handy quite often while searching for dead Welsh kings. He could, however, tell that 'soldat' wasn't English, and he was pretty sure he could guess what it meant.

"That's-- an interesting name." He was too polite to say anything else. "And right," he continued, moving to follow, "I was just seeing what was going on with the food and stuff." Seeing what they had, taking stock.