ASNC's own Dr Richard Dance features in the BBC 2 documentary Vikings (tonight 9pm, and available for a week thereafter on i-player). He can be seen here on the BBC website explaining how words derived from Old Norse have influenced Modern English.
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My place-name plots suggest the Norse loan words may have arrived with the earlier Angles, perhaps the list expanded by the later Vikings, see:
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