Public Events

17 November 2019
Join Gersum at the Being Human Festival in York! Details can be found here.

16 November 2019
Join Gersum at the Being Human Festival in Chester! Details can be found here.

30 March 2019
Sara Pons-Sanz spoke in Bristol on ‘The Vikings in our Past: Tracing and Classifying the Scandinavian Heritage of English Words’

24 October 2018
Richard Dance and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh spoke at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on ‘Words and Their Extremities in the Languages of Early Medieval Britain & Ireland’.

17 February 2018
Brittany Schorn spoke at the Viking Society Student Conference on ‘Rediscovering the Linguistic Legacy of the Vikings’ in Nottingham on February 17, 2018. 
Sara Pons-Sanz gave a public lecture as part of the Exploring the Past lecture series hosted by Cardiff University’s Continuing and Professional Education Department.

14 February 2018
Sara Pons-Sanz delivered the Helen Thirza Addyman lecture ‘Tracing and Classifying Norse Influence on English’ in York on February 14, 2018. 

10 January 2018
Richard Dance spoke on ‘Vikings in Your Vocabulary’ on January 10th, 2018 at the University of Nottingham lunchtime lecture series ‘Bringing Vikings back to the East Midlands’.

25 October 2017
Gersum held a quiz evening at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

14 October 2017
Richard Dance and Brittany Schorn spoke to the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society and the Yorkshire Dialect Society on ‘Tykes and Vikings: Looking for the Old Norse Influence on Northern English Vocabulary’. 
 
18 February 2017
Richard Dance spoke on ‘Vikings in your vocabulary: how Old Norse words moved in’ at the 2017 Cambridge History Festival.

15 February 2017
Richard Dance was interviewed by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

7 November 2016
Gersum at the British Library! Richard Dance and Sara Pons-Sanz speak on ‘Viking Treasure in the English Language’.

29 October 2016
Brittany Schorn spoke on how to ‘Speak like a Viking’ at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

26 October 2016
Richard Dance spoke on ‘Vikings in your vocabulary: how Old Norse words moved in’ at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

4 October 2016
Brittany Schorn was interviewed by Dotty McLeod on ‘How to Speak Like a Viking’ on BBC radio Cambridgeshire. 

16 May 2016
Sara Pons-Sanz visited St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Bristol to talk about Anglo-Scandinavian linguistic contacts to 30 children aged 7/8.

16 February 2016
Gersum at the Jorvik Viking Festival! Richard Dance and Sara Pons-Sanz spoke on ‘Vikings in your Vocabulary’. 

3 February 2016
Richard Dance was interviewed on BBC radio York.