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Excerpt from Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England: In Old and Middle English Times, Inaugural Dissertation
It has long been a recognized fact that there is, espe cially in Middle English, a large weft of continental-ger manic personal names and that the introduction of these names began already before the Norman Conquest, but up till now no work has been devoted to a detailed exami nation of this subject, a want that the present study is intended to supply, as far as this is possible within the scope of a dissertation and with the actual state of know ledge of the continental and the Old English personal na mes, as well as other questions connected with this matter.
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