Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond

An Annotated Edition of the Old Frisian Runic Corpus
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-072328-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 465 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 946 g

Reihe: Runische Schriftlichkeit in den germanischen Sprachen

The scattered research history of the Old Frisian runic inscriptions dating to the early Medieval period (ca. AD 400–1000) calls for a comprehensive and systematic reprocessing of these objects within their socio-cultural context and against the backdrop of the Old English Runic tradition. This book presents an annotated edition of 24 inscriptions found in the modern-day Netherlands, England and Germany. It provides the reader with an introduction to runological methodology, a linguistic commentary on the features attested in the inscriptions, and a detailed catalogue which outlines the find history of each object and summarizes previous and new interpretations supplemented by pictures and drawings. This book additionally explores the question of Frisian identity and an independent Frisian runic writing tradition and its relation to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon runic culture. In its entirety, this work provides a rich basis for future research in the field of runic writing around the North Sea and may therefore be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and early Medieval history and archaeology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of medieval and runic studies, historians, linguists, ar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaiser, Livia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Livia Kaiser, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.