[Ads-l] FW: 'Our peculiar northern antiquity of speech'

[Amy West]

Because I know that there are other recovering medievalists among the 
ADS members . . .

Via the Viking Society for Northern Research:


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Subject: 	Fwd: FW: 'Our peculiar northern antiquity of speech'
Date: 	Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:30:36 +0100
From: 	Alison Finlay <uble010 at mail.bbk.ac.uk>




This event (in person in York, and online) may be of interest to Viking 
Society members:
'Our peculiar northern antiquity of speech' - News and events, 
University of York 
<https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/sem1-24-25/mary-powley/>

*'Our peculiar northern antiquity of speech': Mary Powley of Langwathby 
(1811-1882), the Vikings in England, and Local Dialect. Professor 
Matthew Townend, Department of English and Related Literature.*



-- 
Alison Finlay
Professor of Medieval English and Icelandic Literature
Department of English and Humanities
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Editor, /Saga-Book/
Publications Editor, Viking Society for Northern Research

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And here's the description from the website:

Mary Powley was a remarkable pioneer in the study of local dialect and 
the Vikings in the north of England. Living in the small village of 
Langwathby (near Penrith in Cumbria), she contributed articles to the 
transactions of her local antiquarian society (the first woman to do 
so), published a fascinating volume of poems and translations (/Echoes 
of Old Cumberland/, 1875), and worked tirelessly to record and celebrate 
local dialect and local culture. This lecture will explore the 
connections between Powley's dialect studies and her role in the 
re-discovery of the Vikings in Cumbria, paying especial attention to her 
contributions to the three great projects of Victorian dialectology: the 
English Dialect Society (1873-96), Alexander Ellis' /The Existing 
Phonology of English Dialects/ (1889), and the /English Dialect 
Dictionary/ (1898-1905). As we will see, in the nineteenth century the 
study of local dialect was a thoroughly medievalist endeavour, and it 
played a central role in uncovering the history of the Vikings in England.

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