TALK ABOUT VIKING WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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Saturday 30th Mar 2019
Cost: £5
THE CARTSHED, WINTERBOURNE MEDIEVAL BARN, CHURCH LANE, WINTERBOURNE , BS36 1SE
The English language is multicultural, with thousands of words having been borrowed from other languages, particularly Latin, French and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings). Some of the Old Norse words are so deeply integrated into the language that no-one would suspect that they have not always been part of English (e.g they, skull, window, happy, ugly, cast, take).
Dr Sara M. Pons-Sanz of Cardiff University explores the nature of the linguistic legacy that the Vikings left behind, what this can tell us about Viking-English relations, and how best to identify and classify Norse loans in English.
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