Katrin Thier
Biographic Data
| ID | 6623675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrin Thier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Thier |
| SIGNATURE | THIER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
South and north
As the variety of names for ship types in the 12th and 13th century is greater than that of the archaeological evidence from the period, this is an attempt to contribute to the wider study of ship types by tracing the evidence provided by one particular word, which was in use both in northern and southern Europe at the time
Language and technology
Language contact and the transfer of technologies are closely linked and often influence each other. This paper examines a few examples from the domain of seafaring at various periods relevant to the history of Anglo‐Saxon England and the Old English language. The origin of Old English segl is used to illustrate prehistoric influences reflected in the recorded vocabulary; the fate of ciula , the Latin adaptation of ceol , shows the failing of a b…
Wulfstan's Voyage
Sails in the North-New Perspectives on an Old Problem
The origin of sail has been debated for a long time, but the linguistic evidence has rarely been taken into account. The word sail has a cognate in two Celtic languages, and a good linguistic chronology is available for these. The reconstructed historical development of Celtic and Germanic words indicates that the word existed in West Germanic well before the Anglo-Saxon migrations and the confinement of Celtic to the British Isles. An origin of …
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Sails in the North-New Perspectives on an Old Problem
The origin of sail has been debated for a long time, but the linguistic evidence has rarely been taken into account. The word sail has a cognate in two Celtic languages, and a good linguistic chronology is available for these. The reconstructed historical development of Celtic and Germanic words indicates that the word existed in West Germanic well before the Anglo-Saxon migrations and the confinement of Celtic to the British Isles. An origin of …
Wulfstan's Voyage
Language and technology
Language contact and the transfer of technologies are closely linked and often influence each other. This paper examines a few examples from the domain of seafaring at various periods relevant to the history of Anglo‐Saxon England and the Old English language. The origin of Old English segl is used to illustrate prehistoric influences reflected in the recorded vocabulary; the fate of ciula , the Latin adaptation of ceol , shows the failing of a b…
South and north
As the variety of names for ship types in the 12th and 13th century is greater than that of the archaeological evidence from the period, this is an attempt to contribute to the wider study of ship types by tracing the evidence provided by one particular word, which was in use both in northern and southern Europe at the time
History (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Celtic languages (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)