117. Language contact during the Old Nordic period III: The impact of Christianity on Old Nordic

Astås, Reidar

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“…Christianity had a powerful impact on Old Nordic, leading to lexical changes in the word stock and phraseology. As noted by Astås (2002Astås ( : 1045, Christianization increased linguistic homogeneity in the Nordic countries, as well as linguistic differentiation 4 . In the West Nordic dialects, represented by Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian, the new terminology was influenced more by the indigenous vocabulary than the eastern dialects, such as Old Danish and Old Swedish which extensively borrowed new religious words from German-speaking areas.…”

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Namen als jüdische Identitätsattribute und als Mittel des Humors oder der Verspottung in den Witzblättern (1882–1883)

Tamás¹

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”

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The conversion of the Nordic countries to Christianity, largely completed in the 13 th century, exerted a profound influence not only on Scandinavian society and its spiritual life, but also on the linguistic practices of name-giving. Hence, the purpose of this article is twofold: (i) to outline the process of introduction of the new religion in the Scandinavian countries and the conflict with the heathen cultic elements, and (ii) to account for the changes in the Scandinavian onomasticon of personal names after the importation of Christian foreign names. The paper draws on early religious and literary sources and includes an etymological analysis of the aforementioned personal names as a result of language contact with Latin and Greek.

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Section: Language Change and The New Religionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Namen als jüdische Identitätsattribute und als Mittel des Humors oder der Verspottung in den Witzblättern (1882–1883)

Tamás¹

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Onomastics ”Name and Naming”

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117. Language contact during the Old Nordic period III: The impact of Christianity on Old Nordic

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Namen als jüdische Identitätsattribute und als Mittel des Humors oder der Verspottung in den Witzblättern (1882–1883)

Namen als jüdische Identitätsattribute und als Mittel des Humors oder der Verspottung in den Witzblättern (1882–1883)

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