Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
An Etymological Survey
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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 interp...
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
_ 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