Title: From the Viking word-hoard : a dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland /
Authors: Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid.; Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid.
Publisher: Four Courts Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: English language Foreign elements Scandinavian; Irish language Foreign elements Scandinavian; English language Etymology Dictionaries; Irish language Etymology Dictionaries.; Scottish Gaelic language Etymology Dictionaries.; Scottish Gaelic language Foreign elements Scandinavian; Scandinavian languages Influence on English; Scandinavian languages Influence on Irish; Scandinavian languages Influence on Scottish Gaelic; British Isles Languages History.
Abstract: At the beginning of the ninth century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who peopled the countries abutting the Baltic - the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes and the Danes - began a great outward movement, caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature. Thus the ninth century came to be known as the Age of the Vikings, Vikinga-Old.