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Biography

After studying at the University of Sheffield (BA English Language with Linguistics 2005; MA Historical Language Studies 2006), I came to the 糖心原创 for my PhD (Vocalism in the Continental runic inscriptions, 2010). I taught at several UK universities and at the Universit盲t Paderborn in Germany before starting work on a postdoctoral research project in 2011. I rejoined the School of English at Nottingham as a permanent member of staff in September 2015.

Expertise Summary

Runology; historical linguistics (chiefly Germanic phonology); history of the English language; the popular reception of ideas about runes, language, magic and Germanic mythology.

Teaching Summary

I teach on undergraduate modules in medieval English and in modern English Language and Linguistics, bringing a historical perspective into the teaching of synchronic linguistics. I also contribute… read more

Research Summary

From 2011-2015 I was a postdoctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme "The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain" (www.le.ac.uk/diasporas). The focus of my… read more

Recent Publications

• MARTIN FINDELL, 2021. Futhark. 12, 81-98
• MARTIN FINDELL and PHILIP A. SHAW, 2020. Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation. In: W. MARK ORMROD and JOANNA STORY, eds., Migrants in Medieval England, c.500鈥揷.1500 Oxford University Press. 62-89
• MARTIN FINDELL and LILLA KOP脕R, 2017. Fragments. 6,
• FINDELL, MARTIN., 2016. Futhark. 6, 153-170

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I am currently supervising PhD students working on runology, historical pragmatics, Old English medical texts, place-names and historical language contact.

I teach on undergraduate modules in medieval English and in modern English Language and Linguistics, bringing a historical perspective into the teaching of synchronic linguistics. I also contribute to postgraduate teaching in both of these areas. Modules taught include:

• ENGL1006 Beginnings of English
• ENGL1008 糖心原创ing Language
• ENGL2013 Old English: Reflection and Lament
• ENGL4263 Reading Old English
• ENGL4269 Reading Runes

Current Research

From 2011-2015 I was a postdoctoral Research Associate on the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme "The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain" (www.le.ac.uk/diasporas). The focus of my project, "Linguistic Variation in Early Anglo-Saxon England", deals with linguistic data from the period c.400-700 AD, which has hitherto been either neglected or studied through established methods of comparative and internal reconstruction, locating it as a precursor to the better-attested Old English of later centuries. As powerful as the methods of reconstruction are, they have limitations which are well known to historical linguists and are particularly salient when dealing with a small dataset, since traditional models of language reconstruction are designed to account for systemic change, rather than the synchronic description of language in use at a particular place and time. A thorough description of the language of this period is obviously impossible without a larger amount of data, but the traditional account can be supplemented by examining the data from other methodological perspectives and incorporating insights and methods from other linguistic subdisciplines such as historical sociolinguistics and contact linguistics.

I am in the process of writing up this research as a monograph, in which I argue for a focus on smaller-scale, local communities of use rather than treating the language as part of a monolithic "national" entity.

Past Research

I have published research on the Continental (or "South Germanic") runic inscriptions; on runic inscriptions which are (or are suspected of being) of modern origin; on the use of runes in early twentieth-century 惫枚濒办颈蝉肠丑 occultism in Germany and Austria (which influenced Nazi iconography and also had a significant impact on modern pagan beliefs). I have also published a general introductory book on runes for the British Museum.

• MARTIN FINDELL, 2021. Futhark. 12, 81-98
• MARTIN FINDELL and PHILIP A. SHAW, 2020. Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation. In: W. MARK ORMROD and JOANNA STORY, eds., Migrants in Medieval England, c.500鈥揷.1500 Oxford University Press. 62-89
• MARTIN FINDELL and LILLA KOP脕R, 2017. Fragments. 6,
• FINDELL, MARTIN., 2016. Futhark. 6, 153-170
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2015. Linguistic Variation in Early Anglo-Saxon England. In: ROBIN COHEN, JOANNA STORY and NICOLAS MOON, eds., The Impact of Diasporas Oxford Diasporas Programme and The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. 52-56
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2014. Runes. British Museum.
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2013. From H谩vam谩l to racial hygiene: Guido List's Das Geheimnis der Runen, 'The Secret of the Runes' (1908).. In: CHRISTINA LEE and NICOLA MCLELLAND, eds., Germania Remembered 1500-2009: Commemorating and inventing a Germanic past Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 249-269
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2013. History. 98, 769-770
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2012. Phonological Evidence from the Continental Runic Inscriptions. de Gruyter.
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2012. The Germanic diphthongs in the Continental runic inscriptions. Futhark. 3, 45-58
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2010. . In: JUDITH MILLS and MARJOLEIN STERN, eds., North and South, East and West: Movements in the Medieval World, Proceedings of the 2nd Postgraduate Conference of the Institute of Medieval Research, 糖心原创.
• FINDELL, MARTIN, 2007. The 'Book of Enoch', the Angelic Alphabet and the 'Real Cabbala' in the Angelic Conferences of John Dee (1527-1608/9). Henry Sweet Society Bulletin. 48, 7-22