‎Richard Dance, Sara Pons-Sanz, Brittany Schorn (eds)‎
‎Legacy of Medieval Scandinavian Encounters with England and the Insular World‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 454, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, 12 tables b/w., 5 maps b/w, 3 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503607702.‎

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‎Summary The Vikings had a major and lasting impact on the English language. This volume is a unique companion to the study of Anglo-Scandinavian language contact, providing expert discussions of its contexts, backgrounds, and the considerable afterlife of its effects through the Middle Ages and down to the present day. It contains thirteen new articles by leading specialists in the fields of early medieval languages, literature, and history, specially commissioned in order to explore as wide a range as possible of the historical and cultural contexts for Anglo-Scandinavian encounters in the Viking Age and the evidence for them. These essays analyse in detail the Old Norse influence on English, offering studies of words and their meanings in their textual and literary contexts, and including lexicography, dialectology, and syntactic research; they explore findings from archaeology, inscriptions, and place-names; and they situate Anglo-Scandinavian contacts in the larger multilingual, multicultural contexts of the North Sea and Irish Sea worlds. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Conversations with Vikings Richard Dance, Sara M. Pons-Sanz and Brittany Schorn Section A. Meeting, Talking, Writing: Identity and Change in the Viking Age Two Baptisms, Some Funerals, and Other Contexts of Interaction: Vikings and the Church in England in the Late Ninth Century Lesley Abrams Scandinavian Runes in England: Dating, Distribution, and Contexts Judith Jesch Scandinavians and Verb-second in Northumbrian Old English George Walkden Ransacking the Wordhord: The Stylistic Use of Old English Lexical Borrowings in Viking Age Skaldic Poetry Nikolas Gunn Anglo-Scandinavian Contact from a Scandinavian Perspective: Ecclesiastical and Political Contacts in Norway and Iceland c. 1000-1050 Elizabeth Ashman Rowe Some Contexts for Gospatric's Writ David Parsons Section B. Finding Viking Words: The Scandinavian Legacy in the Middle Ages and Beyond The Scandinavian Influence on Irish Vocabulary: Evidence from the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) M ire N Mhaonaigh Old Norse Watery Terms in English Place-Names: A Survey of Medieval Evidence from Two Regions of England Jayne Carroll Gersum: Lexis of Old Norse Origin in the Poetry of the Middle English Alliterative Revival Brittany Schorn The Lexico-Semantic Distribution of Norse-Derived Terms in Late Middle English Alliterative Poems: Analysing the Gersum Database Sara M. Pons-Sanz Topographical Vocabulary in The Wars of Alexander Thorlac Turville-Petre Norse Borrowings in the OED: A Fresh Examination Philip Durkin The Vikings and the Victorians and Dialect Matthew Townend Index‎