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Personennamen in südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Von Robert
Nedoma. Studien zur altgermanischen Namenkunde I,1,1. Heidelberg:
Winter. 2004. Pp. 450. ¤75.
Given that a great deal of the material in the older runic alphabet consists
of anthroponyms, runologists and historians alike will be grateful for
a reference work covering the vast literature on the names that occur
in the southern Germanic runic inscriptions. This book is set up as a
lexicon; after an introductory essay and an extensive and valuable bibliography,
we find an alphabetically arranged treatment of 76 pre-Old High German,
pre-Old Saxon, and Langobardic personal names. This review is relatively
short, more because I had little to criticize than for lack of wonderful
material.
Frederick W. Schwink
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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