From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61396
Date: 2008-11-04
> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>And that's 150 of what? about 10,000 AS words?
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: "Rick McCallister" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 6:45 PM
> 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. Kastovsky thinks that the
> earlier loans were largely the result of Anglo-Saxons
> becoming bilingual in the (temporarily) more prestigious
> Scand. language, while the later ones were largely brought
> into English by speakers of Scand. who switched to English
> during the death of Scand. in the Danelaw.
>
> Brian