Prof Richard Dance

I have published on a range of aspects of early English language and literature. My main research is etymological and lexicological: broadly speaking, I am interested in the history of words, their semantics and their contexts, especially in Old and Middle English texts. My special focus is on the effects of contact between speakers of Old English and Old Norse in Viking Age England, especially on the English lexicon; I am currently writing a book about the Norse loanwords in the Middle English poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'.