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Norn im keltischen Kontext

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Auch die Britischen Inseln waren von der wikingerzeitlichen Expansion ab dem 8. Jh. betroffen. Nördlich und westlich des dänischen Danelag in England entstanden norwegische Siedlungen auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln, in Nordschottland, auf den Hebriden, an der schottischen und nordenglischen Westküste, um die Irische See herum und südwärts. Waren die Nordleute anfangs als Plünderer und Eroberer unterwegs, wirkten sie bald auch als Händler und Stadt- und Staatengründer. Der daraus resultierende keltisch-westnordische Sprachkontakt hielt ein halbes Jahrtausend an und hinterließ Spuren im Norn, der frühneuzeitlichen nordischen Sprache, die bis ins 18. Jh. auf den Shetland- und Orkneyinseln und in Caithness gesprochen wurde. So finden sich Keltizismen sowohl in den wenigen Aufzeichnungen des Norn als auch im nordischen Substrat der schottischen Gegenwartsmundarten, die das Norn ablösten.

The British Isles were among the geographical areas affected by the Viking expansion from the 8th century onwards. North and west of the Danish Danelaw, Norwegian settlements were established on Shetland and Orkney, in Northern Scotland, on the Hebrides, along the west coast of Scotland and Northern England, around the Irish Sea and even further south. Raiders and conquerors at the outset, the Norsemen soon became traders and founded towns and states. The resulting language contact between Celtic and Old West Norse lasted half a millennium and left its mark on Norn, an early modern Nordic language spoken on Shetland, Orkney and in Caithness until the 18th century. Thus, Celticisms can be found both in the few written records of Norn and in the Nordic substratum of those varieties of Modern Scots that came to supplant Norn.

[NOWELE Supplement Series, 26] 2015.  xxii, 261 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Language: German
Published online on 24 July 2015
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“L has placed us very profoundly in his debt through this excellent and well-argued piece of scholarship. It will surely become essential reading for all Celtic and Nordic scholars, and remain so for a long time; I may add that it seems to me equally evident that serious Anglicists would benefit a great deal from reading it.”
“This work is at the cutting edge of present-day historical linguistics but it must be concluded that despite the riveting interest of Lindqvist’s page by page discussion, the gap between theory, even with its many hypothetical permutations, and the fragmentary, dispersed, atomized, and decontextualized evidence is just too great to make the work an unqualified success. This said, it is likely to remain our most authoritative guide to, and analysis of, this multidimensional, multilingual mosaic.”
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