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The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions. A Linguistic and Historical Analysis

THE LANGUAGE OF THE OLDEST RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS. A LINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
 Författare: MAKAEV, Ènver A.
 ISBN: 91-7402-259-8
 ISSN: 0083-677X
 Antal sidor: 137
 Utgivningsår: 1996
 Serie: HANDLINGAR Filologisk-filosofiska serien 21

Makaev's The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions was published in 1965, but it has never reached the broad readership it deserves within the world's   scholarly community because it was written in Russian. Reviews in Western journals called attention to this work, but they could not replace direct access to   the work. The present translation into English (by J. Meredig in cooperation with E. H. Antonsen) makes this important contribution to runic and Germanic   linguistic scholarship available at last to the scholarly world at large, not merely as the subject of historiographical interest, but as a still valid appeal to   runologists everywhere to abandon the wild and unfounded speculations so rampant in runological studies and to adopt a more scientific approach to these   most ancient of all Germanic texts, in keeping with the advances in comparative and historical linguistics.