White nationalists say "We speak English in England!" Medievalists reply, "Since when?" In our last article of 2019, eminent professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown makes a bold claim: the English language and English people have never been monocultural.https://www.publicmedievalist.com/multicultural-english/ …
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Replying to @PublicMedieval @GoingMedieval
I mean yeah, like half of the English words are just morphed old Norse
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There’s plenty of ON but it’s not half. Old English would account for a majority along with Norman French. There are many cognate words though between OE and ON.
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Yes of course Im being hyperbole, tough Norman French I would assume is Old Norse and French combined somehow considering the Normans were French? (Genuinly curious) Even the name England literally means Meadowcountry in scandinavian countries
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There are some Scandinavian terms that come into English via French but no, French still is the second largest influx of words into English, and OE still makes up a majority of words. Norman French wasn’t really a combination of ON and OF, although certainly ON made an impact.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @KnightlyTim and
England is quite literally “Land of the Angles”, which was its meaning in OE. “Enga londe”.
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All of this is very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Now curious to know where the term ”Äng/Eng” i.e ”Meadow” originates from (do you happen to know?) Ängel = Angel
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Umm no. Angle/Anglian was an ethnonym the inhabitants used to describe themselves (and to a lesser extent Saxon was also used), Anglisc was used to describe the language, and English is basically the modern term derived from Anglisc. It has nothing to do with Christianity.
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I want to be clear again, Enga londe isn’t ON. Those are OE words. Londe -> land has a cognate in other Germanic languages, because ultimately they all derive from an earlier language.
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