2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on the Influence from Medieval Norwegian on English in Reference to the Runic Inscriptions
| Project/Area Number |
23520580
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Shinshu University |
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Principal Investigator |
ITO Tsukusu 信州大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (80338011)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 英語史 / 古北欧語（古ノルド語） / 古英語 / 言語接触 / ヴァイキング / 借入語 / ルーン碑文 / カンブリア |
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| Research Abstract |
Our project has reached the following four stages of suggestive conclusion: 1. The indecisive states in the borrowing process of Old Norse in certain place-names in Cumbria indicates that the process was not straightforward, but a result of series of trial-and-error made by the speakers of both languages. 2. The two of the hitherto enigmatic and debatable runic inscriptions curved on the 12th century font preserved in Bridekirk parish church, Cumberland, are 'y' and 'thorn', forming the preterite participle suffix of an ON derived verb 'gere'. 3. The comparison with the 12th-14th century Norwegian runic inscriptions acknowledges the phonological changes in the Cumbrian dialect in the later Middle Ages more distinct. 4. The recognition of the process of amalgamation of medieval Scandinavian with English will provide the teachers of the English language in Japan with more profound understandings of the nature of English; English as a part of the Northern European culture.
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