Re:St Scholastica Day Riot (1355)
by defrost on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:49AM
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Indeed - the Vikings (Danes) brought their language to the north of the British Isles and it spread and persisted to today.
As I can no longer edit my comment above I should mention that the original text by Bede was written by him in Latin circa AD 731, but the O.E.D. references version translated in early | middle English by other authors in the centuries that followed.
It's from one of those that the OED quotes the first written use of Swind | Swynde in <cough> "English" </cough>.
( not so much a language as a kitchen sink full of dregs )
As I can no longer edit my comment above I should mention that the original text by Bede was written by him in Latin circa AD 731, but the O.E.D. references version translated in early | middle English by other authors in the centuries that followed.
It's from one of those that the OED quotes the first written use of Swind | Swynde in <cough> "English" </cough>.
( not so much a language as a kitchen sink full of dregs )