To enumerate all the Scandinavian words in the English popular tongue would, from their quantity, be both a tedious and a superfluous labour. The following selection of a hundred of the most common of them will surely be regarded as sufficient clearly to prove in what a highly remarkable manner “the Danish tongue” has imprinted itself on the north of England, in comparison with other countries occupied by the Normans, as, for example, Normandy; where the Scandinavian language, notwithstanding the very considerable immigrations from Scandinavia, has disappeared to such a degree that but very few traces of it now remain. A HUNDRED DANISH WORDS, SELECTED FROM THE VULGAR TONGUE, OR COMMON LANGUAGE, NORTH OF WATLINGA STRÆT. ───────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────── Provincial │ English. │ Danish. English[8]. │ │ ───────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────── arr │scar │Ar attercop │spider │Edderkop awns │beads of corn │Avner bank │to beat │banke bairn, bearn │child │Barn bede │to pray │bede bid │to invite │byde, indbyde bide │to stay │bie big, biggin │to build, │bygge, Bygning │ building │ blend │to mix │blande boll, or bole │trunk of a tree│Bul (Træ) brosten │burst │brusten clammer │to quarrel, │klamres, │ grasp │ fast-klamre claver │to climb │klavre cluve │hoof │Klov, Hov dyke, dike │ditch │Dige elt │to knead │ælte festing-penny │earnest-money │Fæstepenge fra │from │fra frem folks │strangers │Fremmede Folk full │drunk │fuld, drukken gainest way │nearest way │Gjenvei gammon │merriment │Gammen gants, ganty │to be merry │gantes gar │to make │gjöre gar │to hedge │gjerde glowing │staring │gloende (glouring) │ │ greit, greets │to weep, tears │grœde, Graad grepen │clasped │greben grise │young pig │Griis groats │husked corn │grudtet Korn hack │to stammer │hakke, stamme halikeld │holy-well │Helligkilde hand clout │towel │Haandklæde handsel │earnest │Handsel