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Journal articles on the topic "Old norse language – england"

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Gunn, Nikolas. "Translating the Gospel in Viking Age England: The Evidence from Two Old Norse Loan Translations from Old English." Anglia 137, no. 4 (2019): 527–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0052.

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Abstract A recent resurgence of interest in Old Norse linguistic borrowings in Old English has greatly expanded our knowledge of the contact situation between these two speech communities in the early medieval period and beyond. However, there are a significant number of words that have been considered borrowings in the “other” direction, i. e. from Old English to Old Norse, which have not attracted the same amount of attention in current scholarship. Much of this material requires reassessment and this paper provides a case study of two parallel compound formations in both languages – OE bærs

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Bech, Kristin, and George Walkden. "English is (still) a West Germanic language." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 39, no. 1 (2015): 65–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586515000219.

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In their recent book,English: The Language of the Vikings, Joseph Embley Emonds and Jan Terje Faarlund attempt to make the case that from its Middle period onwards, English is a North Germanic language, descended from the Norse varieties spoken in Medieval England, rather than a West Germanic language, as traditionally assumed. In this review article we critique Emonds & Faarlund's proposal, focusing particularly on the syntactic evidence that forms the basis of their argumentation. A closer look at a number of constructions for which the authors suggest a Norse origin reveals that the sit

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Spiteri, Shane, and Antoinette Schapper. "Language and History in Viking Age England: Linguistic Relations between Speaker of Old Norse and Old English (review)." Parergon 21, no. 1 (2004): 224–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2004.0056.

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Badawi, Wisam Shaher. "The French Phonetic Impact on English." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 6, no. 3, 2 (2023): 14–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.3.2.2.

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The Normandy conquest to England represented a shift in power from the Anglo-Saxon into French or Norman possession. It sheds great effects on people’s life. This shift undoubtedly made a great influence or impact on English in considering that languages are channels for the interaction of cultures and habits. Hence, English was influenced by Latin descendants which reflected by Old French, Old Norse and later the Anglo-Norman variety. This paper tackles French phonetic impact on English which made crucial changes in each spelling and pronunciation by which English shifted from old to middle e

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Rasmussen, Tarald. "Ambiguous Memories of the Reformation: The Case of Norway." Journal of Early Modern Christianity 7, no. 2 (2020): 287–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2020-2024.

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AbstractThe Reformation came to Norway along with Danish annexation of political and ecclesiastical power. For this reason, Norwegian history writing seldom appreciated the history of the Norwegian Reformation, and preferred to look further back to the history of the Middle Ages in search of national, as well as religious, roots of Norwegian Christianity. This was already the case in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Norwegian historical writing. In nineteenth century historical research, the strategy was underpinned by focussing on the medieval period of Christianization: Norwegian

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Fekete, Tamás. "Anglo-Scandinavian code-mixing in English place-names." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 50, no. 4 (2015): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2015-0018.

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Abstract With this paper I wish to investigate the nature of code-mixing found in English place names chiefly, though not exclusively, from the Danelaw area. The paper analyses this code-mixing in the frame-work of contact linguistics in the light of the contact situation between Old English and Old Norse, as described by Townend (2002) and Lutz (2013), that existed from the 8th century onwards, bearing in mind, however, that the Scandinavian place names may not necessarily be direct indicators of the nature and extent of the Scandinavian settlement itself. Historical code-switching usually an

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Tarsi, Matteo. "Lat. scrībere in Germanic." NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution 72, no. 1 (2019): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00019.tar.

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Abstract The present article deals with the reflexes of Lat. scrībere in Germanic. It is proposed that the word was borrowed into Germanic at quite an early stage (1st century AD) as a result of contacts between West-Germanic-speaking populations and the Romans. Special stress is put on the importance of the Roman military in introducing the practice of writing among those that served in the army. Special attention is given to the North Germanic reflexes of Lat. scrībere in order to tentatively explain the morphological difference found in that branch of Germanic, where the verb is found both

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Neidorf, Leonard, and Rafael J. Pascual. "Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31, no. 3 (2019): 298–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542718000144.

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This article undertakes the first systematic examination of Frank’s (1979, 1981, 1987, 1990, 2007b, 2008) claim that Old Norse influence is discernible in the language of Beowulf. It tests this hypothesis first by scrutinizing each of the alleged Nordicisms in Beowulf, then by discussing various theoretical considerations bearing on its plausibility. We demonstrate that the syntactic, morphological, lexical, and semantic peculiarities that Frank would explain as manifestations of Old Norse influence are more economically and holistically explained as consequences of archaic composition. We the

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McWhorter, John. "Too Good to be True." Language Dynamics and Change 6, no. 1 (2016): 34–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601008.

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Lauridsen, Freja Bang. "From SOV to SVO." Leviathan: Interdisciplinary Journal in English, no. 6 (March 13, 2020): 22–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/lev.v0i6.118859.

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The change in constituent order in English is one of the most thoroughly investigated changes in the history of the English language. Even so, there is still disagreement among scholars as to what caused the change. The aim of this article is to argue that it was the influence of the Scandinavians and their language, Old Norse, that caused English to abandon the SOV constituent order and instead adopt SVO constituent order. Because of the intense language contact between the two cultures, several linguistic features of Old Norse found their way into the English language. Numerous morphological

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Old norse language – england"

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Townend, Matthew. "Language and history in Viking age England : linguistic relations between speakers of Old Norse and Old English /." Turnhout : Brepols, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388738336.

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Missuno, Filip. "'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3158/.

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This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry. The study focuses on the complex linguistic and literary manifestations of darkness, a complex and long-underestimated phenomenon for which the most appropriate term is ‘shadow’. Rather than operating with modern categories and traditional dichotomies (light/darkness), I attempt to approach the evidence on its own terms, working from the words, their collocations, and narrow contexts up to larger l

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Birkett, Thomas Eric. "Ráð Rétt Rúnar : reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7ea1359-fedc-43a5-848b-7842a943ce96.

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Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to ráð rétt rúnar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry. The first chapter looks at the use of runes in the Old English riddles, examining the connections between material riddles and certain strategies used in the Exeter Book, and suggesting that runes were associated with a self-referential and engaged form of reading. Chapter 2 seeks a rationale for the use of runic abbreviations in Old English manuscripts, and proposes a poetic as

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Gustafsson, Ida. "The Barns Were Laiking near the Beck : A Study of Old Norse Origins in Colloquial English." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-21329.

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This is a small quantitative study with focus on colloquial English words with an Old Norse origin. The essay aims to study the history of the Viking invasion and its impact on the English language and to answer the question to what extent Old Norse has influenced modern English vocabulary. Also, the quantitative study aims to answer how well elderly British people are familiar with colloquial English words with Old Norse origins and their denotative meaning and also whether there is a difference in knowledge depending on where in Britain one lives. A quantitative questionnaire was designed to

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Birnbaum, Tahlia. "Aspects of Shame in Anglo-Saxon England." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13719.

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This thesis explores a new kind of shame introduced to the Anglo-Saxons with the conversion to Christianity. Shame came to be viewed as a positive emotion; it encouraged one to recognise sinful behaviour and repent. It differed from heroic shame, a negative emotion to be avoided for its association with humiliation. This new sense of shame had to be learnt; it was taught through preaching, and internalised through processes of confession and repentance. The first chapter, an examination of vernacular glosses to the Psalms, looks at the translation of two words from Latin into Old English, for

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Goering, Nelson. "The linguistic elements of Old Germanic metre : phonology, metrical theory, and the development of alliterative verse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d49ea9d5-da3f-4796-8af8-a08a1716d191.

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I examine those linguistic features of Old English and Old Norse which serve as the basic elements for the metrical systems of those languages. I begin with a critical survey of recent work on Old English metrical theory in chapter 1, which suggests that the four-position and word-foot theories of metre are the most viable current frameworks. A further conclusion of this chapter is that stress is not, as is often claimed, a core element of the metre. In chapter 2, I reassess the phonological-metrical phenomenon of Kaluza's law, which I find to be much more regular and widely applicable within

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Wills, Tarrin. "The foundation of grammar : an edition of the first section of Óláfr Þorðarson's grammatical treatise." Phd thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17149.

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Mechie, Calum C. "Re-conditioning England : George Orwell and the social problem novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f142be00-7044-401d-8bd4-5b400944cb35.

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"What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person". This comes from George Orwell's wartime pamphlet The Lion and the Unicorn in which, according to Tosco Fyvel, he sought "to identify himself with England in its finest hour". Orwell offered a more prosaic justification – "I don't share the average English intellectual's hatred of his own country" – in one of his regular "London Letters" to the American Partis

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Åberg, Johanna. "Contact-induced change and variation in Middle English morphology : A case study on get." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-191164.

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The present study explores the role of interlingual identification in contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. The study focuses on the word get as it occurred throughout a selection of texts in the Middle English period. The Old English and Old Norse words for get were cognate, which meant that some phonological and morphological characteristics of the word were similar when the contact between the two speaker communities occurred. A Construction Morphology framework is applied where inflecting features of words are treated as constructions. Interlingually identifiable construct

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Blaxter, Tam Tristram. "Speech in space and time : contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269365.

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This project uses corpus linguistics and geostatistics to test the sociolinguistic typological theory put forward by Peter Trudgill on the history of Norwegian. The theory includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language contact causes simplification of language grammar. In the Norwegian case, the claim is that simplificatory changes which affected all of the Continental North Germanic languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) but not the Insular North Germanic Languages were the result of contact with Middle Low German thro

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Books on the topic "Old norse language – england"

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Townend, Matthew. Language and history in Viking Age England: Linguistic relations between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. Brepols, 2001.

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Pons-Sanz, Sara María. The lexical effects of Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contact on Old English. Brepols Publishers n.v., 2013.

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P, Barnes Michael. A new introduction to Old Norse. 3rd ed. Viking Society for Northern Research, University College, London, 2008.

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Einarsson, Bjarni. Maelt mál og forn fraeđi: Safn ritgerđa eftir Bjarna Einarsson gefiđ út á sjötugsafmaeli hans 11. Apríl 1987. Stofnun ðrna Magnússonar, 1987.

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Højgaard, Jørgensen Jørgen, Bekker-Nielsen Hans, and Odense universitetsbibliotek, eds. Bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies: BONIS. University Library of Southern Denmark, 2004.

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1884-1978, Baetke Walter, Walter Ernst Prof Dr, and Mittelstädt Hartmut, eds. Altnordistik: Vielfalt und Einheit : Erinnerungsband für Walter Baetke (1884-1978). H. Böhlau, 1989.

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Byock, Jesse L. Viking language: Learn Old Norse, runes, and Icelandic sagas. Jules William Press, 2013.

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Zoëga, Geir T. A concise dictionary of Old Icelandic. Dover Publications, 2004.

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translator, Ege Niels, ed. Investigation of the origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language: New edition of the 1993 English translation. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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Rask, Rasmus. Investigation of the origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language. The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Old norse language – england"

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Turville-Petre, G. "The Runes and the Old Norse Language." In The Heroic Age of Scandinavia. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003612063-2.

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Pfaff, Alexander. "The Prehistory of Weak Adjectival Phrases in Old Norse." In Internal and External Causes of Language Change. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30976-2_2.

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Malm, Mats. "The Notion of Effeminate Language in Old Norse Literature." In Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe. Brepols Publishers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.tcne-eb.3.4079.

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Townend, Matthew. "Cnut’s Poets: An Old Norse Literary Community in Eleventh-Century England." In Studies in the Early Middle Ages. Brepols Publishers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.sem-eb.4.8010.

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Carroll, Jayne. "Old Norse Watery Terms in English Place-Names. A Survey of Medieval Evidence from Two Regions of England." In Studies in the Early Middle Ages. Brepols Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.sem-eb.5.141354.

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Carroll, Jayne. "Identifying Migrants in Medieval England: The Possibilities and Limitations of Place-name Evidence." In Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266724.003.0004.

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This chapter asks what enquiries might reasonably be made of the place-name record in order to further our understanding (1) of movements to England in the medieval millennium, and (2) of the process by which incoming communities negotiated the process of acculturation, retaining or giving up identity traits—including language—which marked these groups as distinctive or coherent. A response to these broad questions is attempted through detailed methodological discussion and a focus on the place-names of Old Norse origin which arose as a result of Scandinavian activities in England, from the la

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"Spatial Understanding Of Time In Early Germanic Cultures: The Evidence Of Old English Time Words And Norse Mythology." In Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England. BRILL, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004180116.i-340.58.

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Millar, Robert McColl. "English in the ‘transition period’: the sources of contact-induced change." In Contact. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409087.003.0005.

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Perhaps the central chapter of Contact, we focus here on the rapid and radical changes English passed through in relation to inflectional morphology (in particular but not exclusively in the noun phrase) in the later Old English and early Middle English periods. Comparison is made to other Germanic languages; the concept of drift is introduced. Theories for why these changes occurred and why the changes took place where, when and how they did are considered, with particular focus on earlier contact explanations. Recent proposals that bilingualism with Celtic languages was the primary impetus f

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"Icelanders and Their Language Abroad." In Discourse in Old Norse Literature. Boydell UK, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1grbb9z.12.

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Mitchell, Stephen A. "Old Norse Riddles and other Verbal Contests in Performance." In Old Norse Folklore. Cornell University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501773396.003.0005.

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This chapter examines Old Norse riddles and other verbal contests in performance. It cites that riddles are asked or performed within a tradition of customary knowledge. The Old Norse poetic convention of the kenning is frequently likened to riddles due to the correct referents of extended metaphors. The chapter then looks into the senna and the mannajafnaðr as ritualized forms of verbal aggression typified by their competitive use of language in specific marked social contexts. Moreover, both Old Norse genres are Nordic manifestations of a widely known form of competitive speech act where lan

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Karunanayaka, K. N. C. P., Sankaja Amaraweera, and Sanduni S. Wickremasinghe. "Anglo Saxon English: A Linguistic Overview." In SLIIT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES. Faculty of Humanities & Sciences, SLIIT, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54389/uubu3509.

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Originated in England, English language is a West Germanic language that belongs to the Indo-European language family. From its introduction to the British Isles, the tremendous changes it experienced shaped and developed it into the current lingua franca. In order for English to become a dominant and significant language as it is now, it has gone through a development marked by signifi cant historical events and cultural exchanges. This study analyses Anglo Saxon English/Old English which is considered as the foundation of Englishes that are spoken and studied today. The key area that is anal

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Weirauch, Angelika. "CREATIVE WRITING IN CONTEXT OF UNIVERSITIES." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end056.

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"We present an old process developed more than a hundred years ago at American universities. It means professional, journalistic and academic forms of writing. It also includes poetry and narrative forms. Creative writing has always been at the heart of university education. Today, there are more than 500 bachelor's degree programs and 250 master's degree programs in this subject in the United States. In other fields of study, it is mandatory to enrol in this subject. After World War II, it came to Europe, first to England and later to Germany. Here, ""... since the 'Sturm und Drang' (1770-178

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