This volume on language contact across the North Atlantic, covers the pre-Columbian period of language contact by articles on Old Norse in the Faroes, Scotland and Ireland, the Shetland dialect and Norn, and placenames in Iceland and Greenland. The post-Columbian period is covered by contributions on, in the Scandinavian context, the Scandinavian emigration, American Swedish, American Finnish, Swedish-Spanish and various aspects of Norwegian in America and also in Spitzbergen; in the British colonial context, English dialects in New England, Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia and Scots in North America (Maryland, the Appalachians and Virginia); in the context of the later continental mass emigration, American Dutch, Texas German, Croatian and Italian. Two contributions handle reverse emigration, namely that of Sicilian and Calabrian dialects, and the special case of Krio in Sierra Leone.