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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1002: Linguistic Borderlands, I: Distance, Proximity, and Adjacent Languages

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Roderick McDonald, Independent Scholar, Sheffield
Moderator/Chair:Annina Seiler, Englisches Seminar, Universität Zürich
Paper 1002-aBilingualism and Biscriptality in Medieval Scandinavia
(Language: English)
Alessandro Palumbo, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala Universitet
Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1002-b'Ok var ufridr i morgum lutum': Late Medieval Icelandic-Norwegian Linguistic Relations
(Language: English)
Katrín Lísa van der Linde, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies University of Iceland Reykjavík
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 1002-cDivided by a Common Language?: Swedish Morphology in Danish Translations
(Language: English)
Seán Vrieland, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract

This panel examines boundaries between closely-related medieval languages and scribal systems in both a linguistic and geographic sense, and the implications for how we understand both shared and differentiated characteristics of languages. Palumbo's paper is a sociolinguistic examination of the blending of Roman and runic script in medieval Scandinavian epigraphy, van der Linde examines the relationship between Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian, and Vrieland follows with a paper looking at indications of Swedish influence in Middle-Danish texts.