This article undertakes the first systematic examination of Frank’s (1979, 1981, 1987, 1990, 2007b, 2008) claim that Old Norse influence is discernible in the language ofBeowulf. It tests this hypothesis first by scrutinizing each of the alleged Nordicisms inBeowulf, then by discussing various theoretical considerations bearing on its plausibility. We demonstrate that the syntactic, morphological, lexical, and semantic peculiarities that Frank would explain as manifestations of Old Norse influence are more economically and holistically explained as consequences of archaic composition. We then demonstrate that advances in the study of Anglo-Scandinavian language contact provide strong reasons to doubt that Old Norse could have influencedBeowulfin the manner that Frank has proposed. We conclude thatBeowulfis entirely devoid of Old Norse influence and that it was probably composed ca. 700, long before the onset of the Viking Age.

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古挪威语对贝奥武夫语言的影响：重新评估

本文对弗兰克 (1979, 1981, 1987, 1990, 2007b, 2008) 声称古诺尔斯语影响在贝奥武夫. 它首先通过仔细检查每个所谓的北欧主义来检验这个假设贝奥武夫，然后通过讨论与其合理性有关的各种理论考虑。我们证明，弗兰克将解释为古诺尔斯影响的表现的句法、形态、词汇和语义特征在经济和整体上被解释为古代组合的后果。然后，我们证明了盎格鲁-斯堪的纳维亚语言接触研究的进展为怀疑古诺尔斯语可能影响了贝奥武夫以弗兰克提议的方式。我们得出结论贝奥武夫完全没有古北欧的影响，它可能是由 ca 组成的。700，远在维京时代开始之前。