Language and History in the Early Germanic WorldThis book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the barbarian societies of Northern Europe with classical antiquity and with early Christianity. It brings together linguistic evidence from across Europe and dating from before Caesar to about 900 AD, to shed light on important aspects of Germanic culture. It shows how historical phonology and semantics, often avoided by non-specialists, can provide important clues for historians and archaeologists of the period. Likewise, it demonstrates that philologists and linguists ignore historical evidence at their peril. |
Contents
Religion | 13 |
Law | 30 |
Kinship | 49 |
Warfare | 67 |
People and army | 84 |
Lordship | 102 |
Kingship | 121 |
CONTACT WITH THE NONGERMANIC WORLD | 141 |
The vocabulary of writing | 254 |
CONTACT WITH THE CHRISTIANITY | 271 |
Introduction to Part III | 273 |
Problems of Christianisation | 275 |
The influence of provincial Roman Christianity | 291 |
The influence of Gothic | 308 |
The influence of the Merovingian Franks | 325 |
The influence of the AngloSaxons | 341 |
Introduction to Part II | 143 |
Contact with the Celts | 145 |
The migration of the Goths | 164 |
Germanic loanwords in Latin | 182 |
Latin loanwords in Germanic | 201 |
Trade and warfare with the Romans | 219 |
Names of days of the week | 236 |
Contrasts in Christian vocabulary | 357 |
The vocabulary of ethics and fate | 374 |
Guide to further reading in English | 392 |
Bibliography | 398 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abrogans adjective Alemannic amongst Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon mission army attested authority Baetke barbarian Bastarnae Bavarian Beowulf Birkhan Brüch Celtic Celts Christian Christian terms Christian vocabulary Christianisation Church cognates context contrast Corazza denoted derived evidence example fate fourth century Francia Franconian Frankish frô frontier function Gamillscheg 1970 Gaul Germanic languages Germanic tribes Germanic word glosses gods Gothic Goths Greek Heliand heri hêrro Hildebrandslied Ibid Ilkow influence Irish Jellinek kindred king kingship kinsmen Kluge Kuhn later Latin Latin loanwords Latin word leader linguistic loanwords meaning Merovingian military mission missionary names northern Notker noun origin Otfrid pagan parallels phonological place-names political Polomé regarded religion religious render Rhine Roman ruler runic Saxons Scandinavia Schäferdiek secular semantic sense Slavonic Sound Shift suggests Tacitus Tatian tion trade translation tribal truhtin usage verb vernacular Vistula Wallace-Hadrill war-band warfare warriors Wenskus whilst Wulfila
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References to this book
Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction Benjamin W. Fortson, IV No preview available - 2004 |