LANGUAGE AND HISTORY IN VIKING AGE ENGLAND. Linguistic Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English

Author: Townend, Matthew
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 248
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 2503512925
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 5445

Price: $65.00

This is the first ever book-length study of the nature and significance of the linguistic contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English in Viking Age England. It investigates in a wide-ranging and systematic fashion a foundational but under-considered factor in the history and culture of the Vikings in England. The subject is an important one for many areas of study: for late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age history; for language and literature in the late Anglo-Saxon period; and for the history and development of the English language. The work’s primary focus is on Anglo-Norse Language contact, with a particular emphasis on the question of possible mutual intelligibility between speakers of the two languages; but since languaga%contact is an emphatically socialinguistic phenomenon, the work’s methodology combines linguistic, literary and historical approaches.