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Crumey's first novel, Music, in a Foreign Language, won the Saltire Society First Book Award in 1994. [4] Its theme of alternate history was inspired by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. [5] His second novel Pfitz was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" in 1997, described as "cerebral but warm and likeable". [6]
Fiona Edmonds (born 1980) [1] is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the era between the sixth and the twelfth centuries, with a particular focus on the history of the Britons of Wales and the Old North, [2] as well as Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Northumberland (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b ər l ə n d / nor-THUM-bər-lənd) [5] is a ceremonial county in North East England, on the border with Scotland.It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumbria to the west, and the Scottish Borders council area to the north.
Stuart Sim is a literary critic, social critic and critical theorist currently holding place as professor of English literature at Northumbria University (School of Arts & Social Sciences). He is known for his researches on globalization , postmodernism , poststructuralism , postmarxism , continental philosophy , cultural theory and critical ...
(However, Northumbrian was distinguished from the rest by much less palatalisation. Forms in Modern English with hard /k/ and /ɡ/ where a palatalised sound would be expected from Old English are due either to Northumbrian influence or to direct borrowing from Scandinavian. Note that, in fact, the lack of palatalisation in Northumbrian was ...
Northumbria (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b r i ə /; Old English: Norþanhymbra rīċe [ˈnorˠðɑnˌhymbrɑ ˈriːt͡ʃe]; Latin: Regnum Northanhymbrorum) [2] was an early medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now Northern England and South Scotland.
According to linguist Paul Johnston, Scots descends "from a radically restructured, Norse-influence Northumbrian going back to the Danelaw proper as much as from the original dialects of the Bernician settlers." [3] Further Scandinavian influence could have come about through Scotland's trade contacts with Norway. Current insights into pre ...
878 – 880/881: Angered by Alfred's meagre reward for saving his kingdom, the 21 years old Uhtred of Bebbanburg sails back to his native Northumbria during 878, seeking revenge against his uncle Ælfric and childhood enemies Sven the One-Eyed and Kjartan the Cruel. He travels by ship with his lover and former nun, Hild.