@article{ART002861953},
author={Robert Zola Christensen},
title={Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean},
journal={Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea},
issn={1229-8646},
year={2022},
number={29},
pages={1-19}

TY - JOUR
AU - Robert Zola Christensen
TI - Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean
JO - Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
PY - 2022
VL - null
IS - 29
PB - The Scandinavian Society of Korea
SP - 1
EP - 19
SN - 1229-8646
AB - A first glance Korean and Danish seem to be seemingly far apart each other in every linguistic aspect, from the grammar over pronunciation to the written language, not to mention the elaborated polite-conjugations we find in Korean compared to the Danes’ habit of saying ‘you’ (‘du’) to just about everyone. However, both languages have, from the latter half of the 20th century to nowadays, received an enormous amount of loan words from English-American. If we look in to that, going all the way back to the Viking era in Scandinavia, when it was the Vikings lending out to the English (knife, guest, gift), we even find some rare and astonishing connections between Korean and Danish. In this article we go on a walk about Seoul in South Korea, exploiting the city a as linguistic space, looking at stores, shops, cafés, billboards, signs, and more on, chasing Old Norse that has made it all the way from the Viking age, over England and USA to Asia and Korea.
KW - Konglish;Old Norse;Danish;Language history;word loans;city scape;linguistic space
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Robert Zola Christensen. (2022). Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, 29, 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. 2022, "Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean", Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, no.29, pp.1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen "Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea 29 pp.1-19 (2022) : 1.

Robert Zola Christensen. Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean. 2022; 29 : 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. "Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea no.29(2022) : 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea, 29, 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean. Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea. 2022; 29 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean. 2022; 29 : 1-19.

Robert Zola Christensen. "Old Norse into English into American English into Korean: Some remarkable connections between modern Danish and Korean" Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea no.29(2022) : 1-19.