poetry

The Gersum Project

“The Gersum Project, funded by the AHRC, aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of more than 900 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the North of England. Investigating the early history of these words allows us to address questions about how we can identify Old Norse loans, and how and by whom these words were used in the first few centuries after their adoption into English, especially in the crucial Middle English period.”

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Authors

Richard Dance (PI), Sara Pons-Sanz (Co-I), Brittany Shorn (Research Associate), all authors of main resulting publication

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N

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