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How dead is Orkney Norn?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Joyce Killick
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Variants of Norse were at one time spoken in many parts of Britain and Ireland, their last remnants being the Norn of the Northern Isles. How well has that language fared in Orkney, and how has it blended with English?

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English Today , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 24 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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