{"id":44887,"date":"2014-09-03T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-vikings-and-the-english-language.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:47:23","slug":"the-vikings-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-vikings-and-the-english-language.html","title":{"rendered":"The Vikings and the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love looking at the history of English. The Vikings \/ Norse often get short shrift on their influence, but here are a lot of words to show how they had their impact, too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.babbel.com\/magazine\/139-norse-words?slc=engmag-a17-info-139norsewords-ob'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-YWoGmCop8bsTszvpHQie0i-sIh0A_0LPYfa_ViGge5zRMqIWTZj3wA2Be6tNn3O_UK8mI18dAzxHKGGmJM83dLmRPQXgUl4lJCgQ2w3y0qDLEOGD6c=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\nThe Vikings Are Coming!<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nOld Norse Words in English. Without the Vikings, English would be missing some awesome words like berserk, ugly, muck, skull, knife, die, and cake!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/c4m9qhonccB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love looking at the history of English. The Vikings \/ Norse often get short shrift on their influence, but here are a lot of words to show how they had their impact, too. The Vikings Are Coming! Old Norse Words in English. Without the Vikings, English would be missing some awesome words like berserk, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/the-vikings-and-the-english-language.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Vikings and the English language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/18\/goatgrabber.html","url_meta":{"origin":44887,"position":0},"title":"Goatgrabber?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-01 7:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My Viking Name Dufniall Goatgrabber My Viking Personality: The tougher Vikings might let you on the boat, but generally only when they need ballast. 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