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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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