danelaw

The Danelaw is also pretty interesting, but what I personally find even more interesting is the colonization and settlements in Ireland by vikings.

The Danelaw and settlements caused words from Old Norse to become fairly influential on English.

There was that whole Danelaw episode to mess up the grammar.

> The Danelaw is also pretty interesting, but what I personally find even more interesting is the colonization and settlements in Ireland by vikings.

The Danelaw did not fully extend in to Northumbria.

Is it a perversion of an old Danelaw word?

-bury (corruption of Old English for 'castle') lets you pretty nicely draw out the borders of the historic Danelaw i.e.

At its largest extent the Danelaw covered only about half of england, and it lasted around a century before the Kingdom of Wessex conquered first the other remaining Anglo-saxon kingdoms, then retook the Danelaw, and created a unified Kingdom of England.

First Danelaw expanded from 865 onwards.

A lot of the simplicity also came from contact with the Danes during the Danelaw period, effecting a sort of pidgin understandable by both Danish and English speakers in the area.

English is lacking in the Indo-European penchant for inflection, and you can pretty narrowly pinpoint the moment it happened: the influx of first the Danelaw and the Normans and the concomitant shift from Old English to Middle English.

Seems like a low bar given the entire span of Britain's history - Londinium was founded by Mediterraneans, Danelaw covered half the Big Island for a good period, the Anglo-Saxons were Germanic immigrants pushed back by the Norman wave.

Super interesting thanks, I'll have to read up on the Danelaw, first time I've heard of that!

Earl replaced ealdorman as the title of distinction in the mid-11th century due to the extension of the power of earls outside of Danelaw.

Not sure exactly which point you're refuting, but for a long time Vikings and Danes were synonymous, as preserved in terms like Danegeld or Danelaw.