The Yorkshire Dialect

Episode too focuses on the ancient history of the language. The clip i'm going to play for you now addresses some of the norse influences in the yorkshire dialect. So here's the clip. A thousand years later, near york, in the middle of the old dane lock, the postman still delivers letters to places of norse. To day,. the postman is visiting a farmer of norse descent named irwin bealbythe postman speaks with a typical y Yorkshire accent. Irwin belby speaks a much older and stronger yorkshire variety of english. Erwin berby's conversation is rifted with viking words like addle, meaning to earn. Or