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The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for the collection and analysis of Norse loans in any English source.

  • A new survey of the etymological evidence for nearly 500 words in one of the most famous and important Middle English poems
  • Conducted in accordance with a groundbreaking new system of etymological classification, and with references to all relevant previous scholarship going back to the nineteenth century
  • Contains new insights into the etymologies, forms, meanings and textual interpretation of hundreds of Middle English words
  • Includes a new introduction to the scholarly study of the Old Norse influence on English vocabulary, including a detailed discussion of methodologies

Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Etymological Survey

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The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and... Read more

    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 06/09/2019
    ISBN13: 9781119580027, 978-1119580027
    ISBN10: 1119580021

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , Dictionaries, Reference & Language

    Description

    The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for the collection and analysis of Norse loans in any English source.

    • A new survey of the etymological evidence for nearly 500 words in one of the most famous and important Middle English poems
    • Conducted in accordance with a groundbreaking new system of etymological classification, and with references to all relevant previous scholarship going back to the nineteenth century
    • Contains new insights into the etymologies, forms, meanings and textual interpretation of hundreds of Middle English words
    • Includes a new introduction to the scholarly study of the Old Norse influence on English vocabulary, including a detailed discussion of methodologies

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