Incursions

The Vikings

Norse Words and a New English

Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal

The End of Endings – Morphology

Vikings amongst the English & French

The Norman Conquest

Effects of the Norman Conquest

The effect of 1066 on the English Language

From Conquest to Doomsday

The Dark Ages of English

Religion

The Battle for the Language of the Bible

Influence of Christianity on English Language (p.1-2 only)

Healers, Hospitals and Holy Wars (the influence of Arabic, which united the Muslim world, and its influence on the English language)

The Plague

Black Death; the Fascinating origins of pandemic terms

The Great Vowel Shift (see pg.4 and beyond)

The End of the World (the Black Death and its impact on the reemergence of the English language)