A Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Frank, the Marie Boroff Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, explores the minute details of Old ...

THE English alphabet used to have extra letters that have been lost as centuries went by. While today our alphabet consists of 26 letters, the people of Middle Age Britain had an additional six ...

How many of us bother to give any thought to the words we speak? We babble away, generally in ignorance of linguistic intricacies. Though I myself, in my far-off younger years, taught English at ...

“Trust” is a subject of endless fascination. From how to cultivate it to how to earn it back, how to be more trusting of others and how to trust your gut. But the meaning of the word itself is another ...

VIKINGS season 6, part B is coming to History US and Amazon Prime later this year. Before the final episodes of the last series arrives, fans are curious to know more about the infamous Norsemen. What ...

The Old Norse spoken by the Vikings was, in many ways, very similar to the Old English of the Anglo-Saxons. Both languages are from the same Germanic family and could be considered as distant but ...

As a philologist, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy drew extensively from Nordic language and mythology when creating the world of Middle Earth, notes CU Boulder expert who ...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and ...