{"id":6741,"date":"2019-04-15T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2019-04-15T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:54:33","slug":"new-book-words-derived-from-old-norse-in-sir-gawain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/04\/15\/new-book-words-derived-from-old-norse-in-sir-gawain\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting new forthcoming book for those interested in the language of Sir Gawain<\/em>, and also for those seeking to place the Gawain<\/em>-poet geographically via the dialect.<\/p>\n

Back in 2013 Richard Dance published his fine and detailed study titled “”Tor for to telle<\/em>“: Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em>“, to be found in the volume Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520): Sources and Analysis<\/em>. My heart sank when I learned this was from a AHRC-funded project, but on reading it I was pleased to find that Dance’s work proved a magnificent exception to the rule.<\/p>\n

In this Dance found that… <\/p>\n

“One could hardly, therefore, describe the Norse-derived words at this ‘fundamental’ end of the lexical spectrum as unusually deeply embedded within the author’s language; and, for all their interest in terms of the Gawain-poet’s stylistic strategies, their evidence does not justify searching for his home in parts of England reckoned to be especially densely settled by Scandinavian speakers”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a 2014 paper for the British Academy he mentioned that a… “full etymological analysis of the words derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain<\/em> will appear in a future
\npublication”. <\/p>\n

Now Amazon brings a date for this future publication. Dance’s full book Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Etymological Survey<\/a><\/em> will weigh in at chunky 256 pages. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the book is set to appear on 7th June 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting new forthcoming book for those interested in the language of Sir Gawain, and also for those seeking to place the Gawain-poet geographically via the dialect. Back in 2013 Richard Dance published his fine and detailed study titled “”Tor for to telle“: Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}