Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables xi
5. Preface xiii
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Linguistic Conventions and Abbreviations xv
8. Abstracts xvi
9. Introduction: Frisians – Who, When, Where, Why? 1
10. 1. Palaeogeography and People: Historical Frisians in an archaeological light 5
11. 2. The Anglo-Frisian Question 25
12. 3. Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Periods: Language contact, Celts and Romans 43
13. 4. ‘All quiet on the Western Front?’ The Western Netherlands and the ‘North Sea Culture’ in the Migration Period 53
14. 5. Power and Identity in the Southern North Sea Area: The Migration and Merovingian Periods 75
15. 6. How ‘English’ is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus? The evidence of sounds and forms 93
16. 7. The Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River-basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon 125
17. 8. Between Sievern and Gudendorf: Enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe– Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period 149
18. 9. Cultural Convergence in a Maritime Context: Language and material culture as parallel phenomena in the early-medieval southern North Sea region 173
19. 10. The Kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental Connections, c. ad 600–900 193
20. 11. A Comparison of the Injury Tariffs in the Early Kentish and the Frisian Law Codes 223
21. 12. Cultural Contacts between the Western Baltic, the North Sea Region and Scandinavia: Attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age 243
22. Index 273