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Runes and Germanic Linguistics: 140 Reprint 2011 Edition
Author(s): Elmer H. Antonsen (Author)
- Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
- Publication Date: 30 July 2002
- Edition: Reprint 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 404 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110174626
- ISBN-13: 9783110174625
Book Description
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.
