The Gersum Project: Follow-On Funding

标准英语的词汇大约有600个来自古挪威语，这是9世纪到11世纪在英国定居的斯堪的纳维亚新移民（通常被称为“维京人”）使用的语言。它们往往是日常词汇（如丈夫、皮肤、窗户、快乐、生病、丑陋、cast、die、scare），甚至是人称代词（如They）、介词（如until）和连词（though）。维京人最初定居的地区的现代方言中仍然使用着更多的术语（即所谓的丹麦语，例如dale、fell、gowk、bain、gormless、mickle、tle、flit、laik）。Gersum项目彻底改变了我们在英语中识别挪威语贷款的方式，基于挪威语衍生证据的可靠性开发了一种创新的分类。一个可免费访问的在线数据库，分类了900多个术语，论文集和一系列期刊文章，将使我们的发现可供学术界和其他感兴趣的读者使用。我们还制定了重要的公众参与议程，举办了17场公开讲座，参加了4次电台采访等。这些活动证明了非学术观众对这个国家过去的多元文化在地方和国家层面上对英语语言的影响的兴趣。在这个后续项目中，我们的目标是通过开展活动和资源，主要关注两个领域：教育（中小学儿童及其教师）和文化遗产，扩大我们工作的公共影响。我们将:1。开发一系列适合年龄的在线教育资源，将塑造维京人在英格兰存在的持久文化影响的方式，在全国数千所中小学中教授。这些资源将集中在现在和过去的挪威衍生词在英语中的表现，特别是北部方言，特别强调西北中部地区（该地区的文本包括在Gersum语料库起源）。这些资源将包括书面内容、来自不同方言地区的演讲者的录音、Gersum团队和其他专家的讲座录像、互动活动和可在课堂上使用的可下载资源。OCR考试委员会最近对历史A-level课程进行了改革，这一主题的重要性显著提高，巩固了这些资源的及时性。2. 与教师和考试委员会成员建立焦点小组、教师小组和使用资源的培训课程。在整个项目中与相关利益相关者合作，并得到各种教育机构的支持，将使我们能够创建相关和吸引人的资源，这些资源可以广泛宣传和使用。培训约克考古信托（YAT；我们的项目合作伙伴）的前台工作人员（特别是那些在JORVIK维京中心工作的人员）关于维京人及其在英格兰的存在的主题，特别关注他们的语言影响。由于洪水破坏和随后的人员变动，JORVIK在2015年至2017年期间关闭，因此需要进行培训。我们还将为YAT提供员工培训手册以供将来使用，并为他们的虚拟学习环境提供语言信息。4. 分别在圣玛丽创意空间（切斯特）与柴郡记录办公室和YAT的巴利大厅（约克）举办两个家庭日，作为全国性的人类艺术节的一部分，所有年龄段的游客将被邀请通过一系列针对不同年龄段的活动，包括艺术和手工艺，讲故事和公共讲座，探索这些方言地区丰富的语言遗产。我们在这些日子里收集的数据和反馈将进一步帮助我们的教育资源的发展。

The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as 'the Vikings'). They tend to be everyday words (e.g. husband, skin, window; happy, ill, ugly; cast, die, scare), even personal pronouns (e.g. they), prepositions (e.g. until) and conjunctions (though). Many more terms are still used in the modern dialects of the areas where the Vikings originally settled (i.e. the so-called Danelaw; e.g. dale, fell, gowk; bain, gormless, mickle; attle, flit, laik). The Gersum Project has revolutionised the way in which we identify Norse loans in English by developing an innovative classification based on the reliability of the evidence for Norse derivation. A freely accessible online database classifying over 900 terms, a collection of essays and a series of journal articles will make our findings available to the academic community and other interested readers. We have also built a significant public engagement agenda, delivering 17 public talks, taking part in 4 radio interviews, etc. These activities have evidenced non-academic audiences' interest in the effects that the country's multicultural past has had on the English language, both at the local and national level. With this follow-on project we aim to widen the public impact of our work by developing activities and resources that focus primarily on two sectors: education (primary and secondary school children and their teachers) and cultural heritage. We will:1. Develop a series of online age-appropriate educational resources that will shape the way in which the lasting cultural impact of the Viking presence in England is taught in thousands of primary and secondary schools across the country. The resources will focus on present and past manifestations of Norse-derived words in English in general and the northern dialects in particular, with special emphasis on the North-West Midlands (the area where the texts included in the Gersum corpus originate). The resources will include written content, audio recordings by speakers from different dialectal areas, video recordings of lectures by the Gersum Team and other experts, interactive activities and downloadable resources that can be used in the classroom. Recent changes in the History A-level curriculum of the OCR examining board, where the prominence of this topic has significantly increased, underpin the timeliness of these resources. 2. Establish focus groups with teachers and examination board members, a teacher panel and training sessions in the use of the resources. Collaborating with the relevant stakeholders throughout the project and having the support of various educational organisations will enable us to create relevant and engaging resources that can be widely publicised and used.3. Train York Archaeological Trust's (YAT; our project partner) front-of-house staff (particularly those working at the JORVIK Viking Centre) in topics concerning the Vikings and their presence in England, with particular focus on their linguistic impact. Need for training has arisen as a result of JORVIK's closure from 2015 to 2017 because of flood damage and subsequent staff changes. We will also provide YAT with a staff training manual for future use and linguistic information for their virtual learning environment. 4. Hold two family days at St Mary's Creative Space (Chester), in conjunction with Cheshire Record Office, and YAT's Barley Hall (York), respectively, as part of the nationwide Being Human festival, where visitors of all ages will be invited to explore the rich linguistic heritage of these dialectal areas through a series of activities aimed at different ages, including arts and crafts, storytelling and public lectures. The data and feedback that we gather during these days will further help the development of our educational resources.