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Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond

An Annotated Edition of the Old Frisian Runic Corpus
  • Livia Kaiser
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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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.

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Livia Kaiser, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    ix
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    Abbreviations

    xi
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    List of Figures

    xv
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    List of Tables

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    Introduction

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  • Part 1: Preliminaries
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    I The Old Frisian Runic Corpus Edition

    7
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    II Germanic Language Models and Periodization

    23
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    III Historical and Archaeological Framework

    52
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  • Part 2: Linguistic Analyses
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    IV Phonological Discussion of the OFRC

    75
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    V Graphemic Discussion of the OFRC

    97
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    VI Pragmatic Discussion of the OFRC

    117
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  • Part 3: The OFRC Edition
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    Combs

    133
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    Coins and Bracteates

    183
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    Metal Objects

    263
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    Yew Objects

    305
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    Bone Objects

    361
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    Conclusion: A Frisian or North-Sea Corpus?

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    Bibliography

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eBook published on:
September 20, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110728224
Hardcover published on:
September 20, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110723281
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
17
Main content:
465
Illustrations:
30
Coloured Illustrations:
84
Tables:
22
Coloured Tables:
5
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110728224
eBook ISBN: 9783110728224
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110723281
Keywords for this book
Archaeology; Frisian Runic Corpus
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of medieval and runic studies, historians, linguists, archaeologists.
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