The Early Runic Inscriptions: Their Western Features

by Irene García Losquino

Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialects, and can we extract other information from their study as a corpus? The Early Runic Inscriptions: Their Western Features gives answers to these questions through an analysis of the earliest runic inscriptions found mainly in Denmark, and later...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433127040
• ISBN13: 9781433127045
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"