Runes and Germanic Linguistics
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Runes and Germanic Linguistics

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Runes and Germanic Linguistics

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Chapter 1 What is runology?
  5. 1.1 The role of paleography
  6. 1.2 Proper focus
  7. 1.3 Runology and mythology
  8. Chapter 2 The oldest recorded Germanic
  9. 2.1 Linguistic reconstruction
  10. 2.2 Linguistic inventories vs. linguistic structures
  11. 2.3 Proto-Germanic vowels
  12. 2.4 Late Proto-Germanic
  13. 2.5 Defining Proto-Germanic
  14. 2.6 The end of Proto-Germanic
  15. 2.7 What's in a name?
  16. 2.8 Northwest Germanic: Language and inscriptions
  17. 2.9 The end of Northwest Germanic
  18. 2.10 Conclusion
  19. Chapter 3 The earliest Germanic writing system
  20. 3.1 The nature of runes
  21. 3.2 The older, or Germanic fuark
  22. Chapter 4 The graphemic system of the older runes
  23. 4.1 Uncertain runes
  24. 4.2 Distinctive features
  25. 4.3 Variant runes
  26. Chapter 5 The fifteenth rune
  27. 5.1 Earlier attempts at deciphering
  28. 5.2 The rise of comparative linguistics
  29. 5.3 The conflict over Schleswig-Holstein
  30. 5.4 Peter Andreas Munch
  31. 5.5 Ludvig Wimmer
  32. 5.6 Present-day scholars
  33. 5.7 Reinterpretation
  34. 5.8 Chronology
  35. 5.9 Northwest Germanic /r/ and /z/
  36. 5.10 Conclusion
  37. Chapter 6 Age and origin of the fuark
  38. 6.1 Earlier views on the age and origin
  39. 6.2 Erik Moltke and the Danish theory
  40. 6.3 A structural approach to the question of origins
  41. 6.4 The Latin theory
  42. 6.5 ā€œPrimitive alphabetsā€
  43. 6.6 Inscriptions on metal
  44. 6.7 Writing traditions
  45. 6.8 Conclusion
  46. Chapter 7 Reading runic inscriptions
  47. 7.1 Directionality and arrangement
  48. 7.2 The JƤrsberg stone
  49. 7.3 Other runestones of more than one line
  50. 7.4 The Tune stone
  51. 7.5 A question of alignment: The Opedal stone
  52. 7.6 Hidden boustrophedon
  53. 7.7 Transposed runes
  54. 7.8 Conclusion
  55. Chapter 8 Dating runic inscriptions
  56. 8.1 Linguistic and runological evidence
  57. 8.2 Pseudo-evidence for dating
  58. 8.3 No help from archeologists: The StrĆøm whetstone
  59. 8.4 Different materials, different shapes?
  60. 8.5 Relative dating from linguistic evidence
  61. 8.6 Chronological stalemate in the older period
  62. Chapter 9 Sacral or secular?
  63. 9.1 Magical ā€œsolutionsā€ and their consequences
  64. 9.2 ā€œImaginativeā€ and ā€œskepticalā€ runologists
  65. 9.3 Not intended for human eyes
  66. 9.4 The assumed magical power of the runes
  67. 9.5 The runemaster, erilaz, as ā€œrunemagicianā€
  68. 9.6 The runemaster and the cult of Odin
  69. 9.7 ā€œRunic traditionā€ through the millenia
  70. Chapter 10 Runic typology
  71. 10.1 The role of typology
  72. 10.2 The nature of the corpus
  73. 10.3 Inscriptions with isolated words
  74. 10.4 Names in isolation
  75. 10.5 Single runes
  76. 10.6 Isolated names on loose objects
  77. 10.7 Isolated names on stones
  78. 10.8 Commemorative inscriptions
  79. 10.9 Inscriptions without verbs
  80. 10.10 Symbols of office
  81. Chapter 11 Phonological rules and paradigms
  82. 11.1 Laws of final syllables
  83. 11.2 The phonological rules
  84. 11.3 Root-consonant and i-stems
  85. 11.4 Repatterning of the paradigms
  86. 11.5 Confirming evidence
  87. 11.6 The genitive plural and trimoric vowels
  88. 11.7 Proto-Indo-European vowel sequences
  89. Chapter 12 Some controversial grammatical forms
  90. 12.1 Proper names in -o
  91. 12.2 Proper names without endings
  92. 12.3 Nouns with nominative -s
  93. 12.4 The verb */faihijanan/
  94. 12.5 The ghost-form *irilaz
  95. Chapter 13 Runic syntax
  96. 13.1 Linguistsā€™ use of runic inscriptions
  97. 13.2 Descriptive adjectives
  98. 13.3 Attributive genitive
  99. 13.4 Pronominal modifiers
  100. 13.5 Position of the verb
  101. 13.6 Conclusion
  102. Chapter 14 ā€œArchaicizingā€ inscriptions
  103. 14.1 Vernacular vs. elevated style
  104. 14.2 The Setre comb
  105. 14.3 The Ellestad stone
  106. 14.4 The StrĆøm whetstone
  107. 14.5 The Bjƶrketorp and Stentoften stones
  108. 14.6 The Jelling stones 1 and 2
  109. Chapter 15 The Weser runebones
  110. 15.1 Pieperā€™s rehabilitation of the Weser inscriptions
  111. 15.2 Pieperā€™s ā€œimaginativeā€ runological interpretation
  112. 15.3 Critique of Pieperā€™s interpretation
  113. 15.4 A ā€œskeptical runologicalā€ interpretation
  114. Chapter 16 Old English digraphic spellings
  115. 16.1 Diphthongs or monophthongs?
  116. 16.2 The rise of syllabic variants
  117. 16.3 Pre-Anglian developments
  118. 16.4 West Saxon developments
  119. 16.5 The role of the runes
  120. References
  121. Index of inscriptions
  122. Index of runic words
  123. Index of names
  124. Index of subjects