Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : An Etymological Survey
Volume 1
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Publications of the Philological Society
ISBN-10
1119580021
ISBN-13
9781119580027
Edition
Volume 1
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 6th, 2019
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 22.60 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Historical & comparative linguistics
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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 poemsConducted in accordance with a groundbreaking new system of etymological classification, and with references to all relevant previous scholarship going back to the nineteenth centuryContains new insights into the etymologies, forms, meanings and textual interpretation of hundreds of Middle English wordsIncludes 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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