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The word 'vikings'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
vikingsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.63410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 26.7 20 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of vikings in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ood 3-4000 year aerlier as da Vikings, bit de wir laekli sum on page 101

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Vikings seekin shalter, safety, wir w on page 48

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
er. “Whit does du ken aboot Vikings?”
wha wis a young trow when da Vikings cam tae Shetland in da eight
aback by da cleanliness o da Vikings. Dey washed dir hands an faec
Da Vikings med a point o bein weel groom
n tae tell wis aboot hoo some Vikings wid keep dir hair reasonably
5 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
m sharing/retweeting ALL THE VIKINGS!! #uphellyaa #shetland #shetl (2018) twitter link
tream if onybodys interested #Vikings https://t.co/4lyO87yzek (2020) twitter link
r nursery daday!! #uphellyaa #vikings… https://t.co/C4rdkU9eFO (2018) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Kent for: Vikings, fjords an snaa on page 15

1 matches

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
like the vikings fa cam afore, on page 5

1 matches

General Northern

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
e see airt fae the time o the Vikings fae baith the Celtic an Norse
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
ell me yir o Norse bluid, and Vikings hae been in an oot o Pittenwe on page 12
'Hoo dae yi ken aboot the Vikings?' on page 14

19 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
also kicked the shit oot the Vikings at Largs in 1263. We're sure (2021)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the Vikings wad hae named on page 11

1 matches

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