Book Specs
Trade Cloth
Mouton de Gruyter
Published on
Jul 30, 2002
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
6.10x0.91x9.06 Inches
Weight
1.81 Pounds
About the Book
The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding of the prehistory and early history of the present-day Germanic languages, including English, becomes abundantly clear once the accu-mulation of unfounded claims of older mythological and cultic studies is cleared away.