TY - JOUR AU - Særheim, Inge PY - 2020/01/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Low German influence on the Scandinavian languages in late medieval times – some comments on loan words, word-forming, syntactic structures and names JF - AmS-Skrifter JA - AmS-Skrifter VL - IS - 27 SE - Part III: The cultural impact of trade DO - 10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i27.270 UR - https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Skrifter/article/view/270 SP - 153-161 AB - <p>There was a strong influence from the Low German language on the languages in Scandinavia in late medieval times due to&nbsp;the considerable economical and cultural contact and interaction between northern Germany and the Scandinavian countries&nbsp;in this period, especially the Hanse trade. The vocabulary was especially affected, but also the grammatical structure and&nbsp;names. Some place-names from south-western Norway seem to reflect Low German influence. The loans from Low German&nbsp;are well integrated and adjusted to the structure of the Scandinavian languages.</p> ER -