Excerpt from Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English The present work forms the first part of a treatise on the Scandinavian loan-words in Middle English, which will appear in complete form in the course of next year. The difficulties of the problem which I hope to have fairly illustrated in the Introduction must necessarily cause a work on the subject in question to fall far short of ideal requirements. My chief aim has been to collect and as far as circumstances would allow to sift the material which has been ...
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Excerpt from Scandinavian Loan-Words in Middle English The present work forms the first part of a treatise on the Scandinavian loan-words in Middle English, which will appear in complete form in the course of next year. The difficulties of the problem which I hope to have fairly illustrated in the Introduction must necessarily cause a work on the subject in question to fall far short of ideal requirements. My chief aim has been to collect and as far as circumstances would allow to sift the material which has been accessible to me during the course of my studies in English philology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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