Saami Loanwords in Old Norse

Language, Society and Identity in Early Iceland Stephen Pax Leonard (2012) [Publications of the Philological Society, 45] London: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 198 ISBN 978-1-118-29496-3

“…Sámi (called Finnar) are a pervasive presence in Old Norse texts. Despite Hermann Pálsson (1997) and a recent boom in work on influences between Sámi and Scandinavian, including loan words (Hyllested, 2008) and speculation on morphological influences (e.g. Kusmenko, 2004), as far as I know no one has looked for a Sámi linguistic presence in Iceland.…”