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Title: Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Etymological Survey
Author: Richard Dance
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781119580027
ISBN: 9781119580027
Edition: Volume 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Genre: Language & Reference
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Description:

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

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 228mm
Item Length: 144mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 386g
Book Series: Publications of the Philological Society
Release Year: 2019

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