This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing wor

This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

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History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in N