Cross-Channel language ties

Derolez, René

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“…22 Well aware of the linguistic insularity of the English, Professor R. Derolez Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction experts. 23 Gysseling considers that there was symbiosis across the Romance/ Germanic language frontier between the Germanic nominal suffix -ingas, found in names in England such as Hastings (Hastinges 1086) 24 and names on the continent such as Wilmandingen in Swabia {Willimundingas 773), 25 and the Gallo-Roman adjectival suffix -iacum, which was germanicized as -iacas. Gysseling also considers that these names in -ingheim may reflect the influence of the neighbouring Romance constructions in -iaca curtis and -iaca villa.…”

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Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction

Fellows-Jensen

1990

Anglo-Saxon England

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In a series of sketches by Elizabeth Gaskell, which appeared in Charles Dickens's weekly periodical Household Words between 1851 and 1853, the small Cheshire town of Knutsford was immortalized under the name Cranford. Mrs Gaskell, who had spent most of her childhood in Knutsford, knew the town and its inhabitants intimately and she returned to it as the setting for some of her later works, in which she called it ‘Eccleston’, ‘Dunscombe’ and ‘Hollingford’. Each of these four fictional names is convincing enough as the name of a small provincial town. Three of the names, indeed, are borne by settlements elsewhere in England, and the fourth, ‘Hollingford’, is close enough in form to the genuine names Hollington and Hollingworth to be acceptable. On her marriage, Elizabeth Gaskell had moved from Knutsford to Manchester and she exploited this commercial city, too, as the setting for some of her works. Her first published novel, Mary Barton (1848), actually bore the subtitle ‘A Tale of Manchester Life’, but in later works the city appears under the fictional names ‘Drumble’ and ‘Milton’. Milton is a name which occurs quite frequently in England, although never as the name of a large city. Drumble is an artificial name – presumably a portmanteau word containing the words drear and rumble, which antedates Lewis Carroll's first exploitation of this device in a handwritten version of the poem Jabberwocky from 1855. Elizabeth Gaskell is not the only author to have coined a fictional name for Manchester in the course of time. Charles Dickens referred to it as ‘Coketown’ in Hard Times (1854), for example, and Louis Golding as ‘Doomington’ in Magnolia Street (1931).

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Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction

Fellows-Jensen

1990

Anglo-Saxon England

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The Germanic Background

Lendinara¹

2017

A Companion to Anglo‐Saxon Literature

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Hebban olla vogala: An Eleventh-Century Link Between Dutch and English Literary History

Angerer

2024

Neophilologus

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The short eleventh-century lyric Hebban olla vogala is considered the earliest literary text in Dutch. Yet it only survives as a badly faded pen trial, written in England by a monk from the Low Countries. As a result, the exact reading of the text and even the language it was written in remain uncertain. Now, multispectral imaging of the manuscript has made it possible to provide an improved reconstruction of the text. An analysis of this new reading suggests that the scribe deliberately used the similarity between dialects of late Old English and Old Dutch to produce a rhyming verse text that was intelligible in both languages. As a multilingual and translingual poem, Hebban olla vogala must therefore be situated in English as well as Dutch literary history. The scribe’s other pen trials in the same manuscript demonstrate an interest in different Latin verse forms, indicating that Hebban olla vogala may also be a literary experiment. In exploiting the mutual intelligibility of Old Dutch and Old English, the poem points to an easily overlooked current of influence on late Old English and early Middle English literature. While this is hard to trace due to the similarities between the two languages, Dutch emerges as another potential influence, alongside Anglo-Norman French, on the development of rhyming verse in English after the Norman Conquest. In this way, Hebban olla vogala can be seen not only as a monument of Dutch literary history, but also as a testament to its interaction with English literature.

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Cross-Channel language ties

Cited by 36 publications

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Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction

Place-names as a reflection of cultural interaction

The Germanic Background

Hebban olla vogala: An Eleventh-Century Link Between Dutch and English Literary History

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