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Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Etymological Survey Volume 1 Edition
Contributor(s): Dance, Richard (Author)
ISBN: 1119580021     ISBN-13: 9781119580027
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 427.02
LCCN: 2019011647
Series: Publications of the Philological Society
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages
 
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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