Old Norse and Old English Language Contact: Scandinavian Legal Terminology in Anglo-Saxon Laws
Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2010 The Scandinavian occupation of wide territories in the British Islands from about 900 CE onwards has left a number of vestiges both in place-names, in the pronunciation and lexicon of northern dialects, especially Scottish, as well as loanwords in standard English, some of which are remarkably common, ugly, to take and window to name but three.
Viola Miglio
openaire +3 more sources
Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear? [PDF]
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
Frog, -
core +5 more sources
NORSE secondary to anti-GAD65 antibody-positive encephalitis treated with novel adjunctive rapid titration VNS protocol. [PDF]
Epilepsia OpenNew Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE) is a rare and severe condition characterized by refractory seizures in individuals without a prior history of epilepsy.
Li M +9 more
europepmc +2 more sources
The Fate of Complex Languages: Classical Arabic and Old Norse in the Age of Globalisation
Nordlyd, 2004 I discuss the effects of globalisation on verbal inflection in two language groups, Arabic and Scandinavian. With the term ‘globalisation’ I do not only refer to most recent world history, but also to earlier expansions of empires, cultures and languages.
Wouter Kusters
openaire +5 more sources
The Grammaticalization of the Epistemic Adverb Perhaps in Late Middle and Early Modern English
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021 Old and Early Middle English did not yet have modal sentential adverbs of low probability. Old Norse did not have such words, either. From the 13th century onwards first epistemic prepositional phrases of Anglo-Norman origin functioning as modal ...
Molencki Rafał
doaj +1 more source
The perception of Old Norse literature in modern Icelandic children’s literature [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 In Icelandic children’s literature of the years 2000−2010, the texts that make use of the subjects of Old Norse literature are not very common, but their importance is undeniable.
Markelova Olga
doaj +1 more source
Scandinavian Studies in Germany with a Special Focus on the Position of Old and Modern Icelandic
Humanities, 2022 Scandinavian Studies today are divided into (at least) three areas, which should ideally also be represented by their own chairs at the universities, if one wants to cover the subject as broadly as possible.
Irene Kupferschmied, Magnús Hauksson
doaj +1 more source
Describing Inflectional Patterns of Nouns in Old Icelandic
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2022 The Database of Old Icelandic Inflections (DOII) is a project at The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (SÁM) at the University of Iceland with the goal to describe the inflectional patterns of Old Icelandic. DOII uses the same structure as
Ellert Thor Johannsson +1 more
doaj +1 more source
What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English
SELIM, 2023 McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian ...
Cynthia L. Allen
doaj +1 more source
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2021 In this article we discuss the evolution of data collection and use in the context of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP), which is a dictionary covering the medieval language of Iceland and Norway.
Ellert Thor Johannsson +2 more
doaj +1 more source