Table of Contents

1. Preface & Acknowledgments; 2. Editors' introduction; 3. Part I. The evidence of place-names; 4. Celts in Scandinavian Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England: Place-names and language contact reconsidered (by Hough, Carole); 5. The colonisation of England by Germanic tribes on the basis of place-names (by Udolph, Jurgen); 6. Ancient toponyms in south-west Norway: Origin and formation (by Saerheim, Inge); 7. Part II. Code selection in written texts; 8. On vernacular literacy in late medieval Norway (by Hagland, Jan Ragnar); 9. Four languages, one text type: The neighbours' books of Bryggen 1529-1936 (by Nesse, Agnete); 10. On variation and change in London medieval mixed-language business documents (by Wright, Laura); 11. Part III. Linguistic developments and contact situations; 12. Old English-Late British language contact and the English progressive (by Killie, Kristin); 13. The Old English origins of the Northern Subject Rule: Evidence from the Lindisfarne gloss to the Gospels of John and Mark (by Cole, Marcelle); 14. For Heaven's sake: The Scandinavian contribution to a semantic field in Old and Middle English (by DiSciacca, Claudia); 15. North Sea timber trade terminology in the Early Modern period: The cargo inventory for the White Lamb revisited (by Lorvik, Marjorie); 16. 'Nornomania' in the research on language in the Northern Isles (by Melchers, Gunnel); 17. Index of subjects, terms & languages