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BOOK OF ABSTRACTSKeynote lecturesRichard Dance (University of Cambridge)The trouble with Vikings: ‘Difficult’ Old Norse borrowings in Middle EnglishAn ICOME conference in Norway is the ideal opportunity to reflect on the considerable role played by the early Scandinavian languages in the development of English. Tracing this Old Norse influence has, of course, long fascinated scholars, and there has been much interesting recent work both on the linguistic evidence for it and on the contexts and nature of the contacts in Viking Age England which brought it about. Nevertheless, there remains a