Dialect in the Viking-Age Scandinavian diaspora: the evidence of medieval minor names

This thesis investigates the Scandinavian contribution to medieval microtoponymic vocabulary in two areas of northwest England, Wirral, part of the historic county of Cheshire in the north-west Midlands, and an area of the county of Cumbria, the West Ward of Westmorland Barony. It is shown that the...

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Main Author: Rye, Eleanor
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32254/