Editors’ introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface & Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ introduction ix
5. Part I. The evidence of place-names
6. Celts in Scandinavian Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England 3
7. The colonisation of England by Germanic tribes on the basis of place-names 23
8. Ancient toponyms in south-west Norway 53
9. Part II. Code selection in written texts
10. On vernacular literacy in late medieval Norway 69
11. Four languages, one text type 81
12. On variation and change in London medieval mixed-language business documents 99
13. Part III. Linguistic developments and contact situations
14. Old English–Late British language contact and the English progressive 119
15. The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule 141
16. For Heaven’s sake 169
17. North Sea timber trade terminology in the Early Modern period 193
18. ‘Nornomania’ in the research on language in the Northern Isles 213
19. Index of subjects, terms & languages 231