Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland

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Quantifying the Scandinavian contribution to the vocabulary of Middle English microtoponyms from Wirral and Westmorland

This article discusses a method that has previously been used to quantify proportions of Scandinavian vocabulary relative to Old English-derived vocabulary in corpora of minor names from areas of Viking-Age Scandinavian settlement in England. This method is then applied to corpora of medieval micro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rye, Eleanor
Other Authors:	Akselberg, Gunnstein
Format:	Book Section
Published:	NORNA-förlaget 2017
Subjects:	Place-names Old Norse Old English Middle English dialect
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50643/

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