Norsk språk i seinmiddelalderen – endringer, periodisering og årsaker til endringene

This dissertation starts with a small text sample of eight charters. These charters were issued in Bergen and date from between 1298 and 1495. The material was analysed with particular emphasis on changes in orthography, phonology, morphology and lexicon. Material from the period between 1450 and 1550 has already been thoroughly treated by Egil Pettersen (1975 and 1991), and my text sample and my analyses thus mainly provide a sketch of the developments from the last part of the Old Norwegian period until Pettersen’s text sample begins. From my analyses of the texts, it can be pointed out that it was not a clear link between vowel reduction and the decline of case inflection or the sporadic…