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Use in varieties of Scots

vikings Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.5 10.6 4.5 0 58.1 0 0
Number of occurrences3421 3 0 10 0 0
Number of authors10 3 3 4

Occurrences of vikings in Corpus

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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

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

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

Doric

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

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

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

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