University of Cambridge

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

The Gersum Project: Follow-On Funding

The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as ‘the Vikings’).

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Gersum Project

This project aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of up to 1,600 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the North of England.