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W.Hunt’s The English Church from Its Foundation to the Norman
Conquest (London, 1899), or, in more detail, in A.J.Mason, The Mission of
St. Augustine to England according to the Original Documents
(Cambridge, 1897). Among modern histories of the English church, see
especially Margaret Deanesly, The Pre-Conquest Church in England (2nd
ed., London, 1963), and H.Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to
Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1972). These may be supplemented for
the period of the Benedictine Reform by J.A.Robinson’s The Times of St.
Dunstan (Oxford, 1923) and David Knowles, The Monastic Order in
England (2nd ed., Cambridge, UK, 1963). The fullest discussion of the
Latin element in Old English is Alois Pogatscher, Zur Lautlehre der
griechischen, lateinischen und romanischen Lehnworte im Altenglischen
(Strassburg, 1888). A.Keiser’s The Influence of Christianity on the
Vocabulary of Old English Poetry (Urbana, IL, 1919), Otto Funke’s Die
gelehrten lateinischen Lehn-und Fremdwörter in der altenglischen
Literatur von der Mitte des X. Jahrhunderts bis um das Jahr 1066 (Halle,
Germany, 1914), and Helmut Gneuss’s Lehnbildungen und
Lehnbedeutungen im Altenglischen (Berlin, 1955) are also valuable. A
general discussion of the Latin and Greek element in English will be found
in Roland G.Kent, Language and Philology (Boston, 1923), in the series
Our Debt to Greece and Rome.
The most extensive consideration of the Celtic loanwords in Old English is Max Förster, Keltisches
Wortgut im Englischen (Halle, Germany, 1921), which may be supplemented by the important
reviews of Ekwall (Anglia Beiblatt, XXXIII, 74–82) and Pokorny (Zeit. für Celtische Phil, XIV,
298). Förster adds to his findings in “Englisch-Keltisches,” Englische Studien, 56 (1922), 204–
39, and Wolfgang Keller discusses “Keltisches im englischen Verbum” in Anglica:
Untersuchungen zur englischen Philologie, Alois Brandl zum 70. Geburtstage überreicht
(Leipzig, 1925; Palaestra, 147–48), I, 55–66.
Excellent accounts of early Scandinavian activities are T.D.Kendrick, A History of the Vikings
(New York, 1930); David Wilson, The Vikings and Their Origins (London, 1970); Peter Foote
and D.M.Wilson, The Viking Achievement (London, 1970); P.H.Sawyer, Kings and Vikings:
Scandinavia and Europe, AD 700–1100 (London, 1982); Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings
(2nd ed., Oxford, 1984); J. Graham-Campbell, The Viking World (2nd ed., London, 1990), and
Else Roesdahl, The Vikings (London, 1991). Essays by various specialists, including those
participating in significant archaeological findings, are collected in R.T.Farrell, ed., The Vikings
(London, 1982) and in Colin Renfrew, ed., The Prehistory of Orkney (Edinburgh, 1985). On all
of these topics, Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder (21 vols., Copenhagen, 1956–
1978) is an encyclopedic work of great importance. For King Alfred, see C.Plummer, Life and
Times of Alfred the Great (Oxford, 1902), and Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge, eds. and
trans., Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
(Harmondsworth, UK, 1983). F.M. Stenton’s “The Danes in England” (1927) is reprinted in
Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Doris Stenton (Oxford, 1970). H.R.Loyn surveys the
general historical background in The Vikings in Britain (London, 1977); and R.A.Hall focuses
on recent archaeological work in “The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw: a Review of Present