Ransacking the wordhord: the stylistic use of Old English lexical borrowings in Viking Age skaldic poetry
This chapter assesses the use of a small selection of Old English loanwords in Viking Age skaldic verse (hearra/harri, heretoga/hertogi, sāwol/sála, godfæder/goðfaðir). Drawing on modern sociolinguistic and stylistic theory, it argues that the perceived...
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| description | This chapter assesses the use of a small selection of Old English loanwords in Viking Age skaldic verse (hearra/harri, heretoga/hertogi, sāwol/sála, godfæder/goðfaðir). Drawing on modern sociolinguistic and stylistic theory, it argues that the perceived "Englishness" of these lexical borrowings is less interesting than the way they were used creatively in performance to elicit certain artistic, cognitive and ideological effects. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b99f92bf-bf26-41b2-98d7-63e0a111eef62023-12-21T09:02:23ZRansacking the wordhord: the stylistic use of Old English lexical borrowings in Viking Age skaldic poetryBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:b99f92bf-bf26-41b2-98d7-63e0a111eef6EnglishSymplectic ElementsBrepols Publishers2020Gunn, NDance, RPons-Sanz, SSchorn, BThis chapter assesses the use of a small selection of Old English loanwords in Viking Age skaldic verse (hearra/harri, heretoga/hertogi, sāwol/sála, godfæder/goðfaðir). Drawing on modern sociolinguistic and stylistic theory, it argues that the perceived "Englishness" of these lexical borrowings is less interesting than the way they were used creatively in performance to elicit certain artistic, cognitive and ideological effects. |
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