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McDonald, Roderick W., “Dynamics of identity: Norse loanword-borrowers in Ireland and Scotland, and linguistic evidence of urbanization”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018): 2–31.

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“Dynamics of identity: Norse loanword-borrowers in Ireland and Scotland, and linguistic evidence of urbanization”
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Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018)
Tracy, Larissa (ed.), Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 11 (2018), American Society of Irish Medieval Studies.
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11
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2–31
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This paper explores the ways in which a semantic analysis of loanwords advances an understanding of possible identities in Irish- and Gaelic-speaking communities where Norse lexis was borrowed as a result of interactions with Scandinavian settlers from the Viking Age onwards. The paper (i) argues that the linguistic evidence reveals certain aspects of the identities of people borrowing loanwords, (ii) identifies a range of personal and community identities in Ireland and Scotland during the Viking Age, and (iii) explores the mixed nature of urbanization in Ireland arising from the presence and influence of Scandinavians, as reflected in Norse loanwords considered in an archaeological context.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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