The Medieval North and Its Afterlife

The Medieval North and Its Afterlife
Author: Siân Grønlie
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2023-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501516604

This book showcases the variety and vitality of contemporary scholarship on Old Norse and related medieval literatures and their modern afterlives. The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature. Demonstrating the lively state of contemporary research on Old Norse and related subjects, this collection celebrates Heather O’Donoghue’s extraordinary and enduring influence on the field, as manifested in the wide-ranging and innovative research of her former students and colleagues.

Real English

Real English
Author: James Milroy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317896955

While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.