Chapter I: Front Matter

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SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE
ON
SOUTHERN LOWLAND SCOTCH

A Contribution
to the Study of the Linguistic Relations
of English and Scandinavian

by

GEORGE TOBIAS FLOM, B.L., A.M.
Sometime Fellow in German, Columbia University

AMS PRESS, INC.
NEW YORK
1966

Copyright 1900, Columbia University Press, New York

Reprinted with the permission of the Original Publisher, 1966

AMS PRESS, INC. New York, N.Y. 10003 1966

Manufactured in the United States of America

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ERRATA.

P. vi, l. 10, for _norrnøe_, read _norrøne_.

P. viii, l. 5, for _Wyntown_, read _Wyntoun_ and so elsewhere.

P. x, l. 11 from bottom, for _Koolmann_, read _Koolman_ and so elsewhere.

P. xi, l. 1, for _Paul_, read _Kluge_; l. 2, for _Hermann Paul_, read _Friedrich Kluge_.

P. 5, l. 6 from bottom, for _in York_, read _and York_.

P. 13, last line, for or ǣ ę̄, read ǣ or ę̄.

P. 18, l. 3 from bottom, for _Skaif_, read _Skæif_.

P. 19, l. 13, for _is to_, read _is to be_.

P. 21, l. 10, for _Fiad_, read _Faid_.

P. 26, l. 2, _aparasta_ should be _aprasta_.

P. 31, under Bront (See Skeat _brunt_) should be See Skeat _brunt_.

P. 32, under _Byrd_, for bōræ, read böræ.

P. 47, under Hansel, for Bruce, V, 120, Hansell used ironically means "defeat," read: Bruce, V, 120, hansell, etc.

P. 50, under _Laike_, for _i-diphthong_, read _æi-diphthong_.

P. 66, under _Swarf_, in the last line for O. Fr. read O.F.

P. 74, l. 19, for _e to a_, read _e to æ_.

[Transcriber's Note: The above changes, listed in the printed book, have been made in the e-text without further notation. The following apparent errors, not mentioned in the Errata, have not been changed but are noted here:

P. 5, last line, the form _bỳr_
?should be the form _býr_

P. 28 _Bein, bene, bein_: duplication in original

P. 28 under _Bing_, Douglass
?should be Douglas

P. 29 under _Blout, blowt_, Douglas, III, 76; II,
?should be Douglas, III, 76, 11

P. 49 under _Irking_, Winyet, II, 76; I
?should be II, 76, 1

P. 55 under _Quey, quoy_: O. N. Norse

P. 69 under _Skyle_, Fer.
?should be Far.

P. 79 under _ǣ_, ǣ > e, e ?should be ǣ > a, e ]

To

Prof. WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, Ph.D. Prof. CALVIN THOMAS, A.M. Prof. THOMAS R. PRICE, LL.D. of Columbia University in the City of New York

IN GRATITUDE