Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Etymological Survey (Publications of the Philological Society)

by RichardDance (Author)

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  2019

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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