Re[4]: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths,

At 6:58:48 PM on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> wrote:

>> At 6:32:04 PM on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, Rick
>> McCallister wrote:

>> [...]

>>> But what percentage of AS was Norse?

>> Only about 150 Scand. loans are found in OE; it isn't
>> until early ME, especially in the north and east, that we
>> see a large number of Scand. loans.

> And that's 150 of what? about 10,000 AS words?

Between 23,000 and 24,000 lexical items.

Brian