Vikings in your Vocabulary
January 5, 2018
By Dr Richard Dance What do English words like egg, husband, law, leg, sky and window have in common? And what about words used in the dialects of northern and eastern England, like lug (‘ear’), mun (‘shall, must’) and rammy (‘disgusting’)? The answer is that all these probably came into early English from Old Norse, …
Danelaw Saga: Bringing Vikings Back to the East Midlands
December 11, 2017
By Ursula Ackrill The Weston Galley’s Danelaw Saga tells a new and exciting story with Viking finds borrowed from museums as well as with manuscript and printed exhibits sourced from Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. The exhibition complements the current University of Nottingham Museum’s exhibition Viking: Rediscover the Legend by focusing …
