Comments on: How Vikings Changed the English Language: Great Vowel Shift

By: Lola

Lola — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:33:18 +0000

This is rubbish this doesn’t tell me anything about how the vikings changed the engilish language……..

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from L-Jay:

The GVS is rubbish? You said it, not me.

Um… just so you know, this is a series – maybe you should start at post one and not the end post that was meant just for interest.

These posts were topics at my university course in Tromsø specifically on the subject on how Old Norse has influenced English. If the information here is relevant to get a degree on the subject then they are definitely relevant to this post series.

By: Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:07:42 +0000

I think this is rubbish. My question was ‘how did the vikings change our language?

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from L-Jay:

This is one post in a series so if you read the other posts you’ll understand why this post is important. The GVS is the beginning of English moving away from the Germanic vowel sounds. Therefore, English developed with Germanic vowels sounds from the Old Norse before it went through the GVS. (Old Norse, which is the ‘Viking Language’ is from the early Germanic language group that developed into the Norwegian of today.)