Frisians and their North Sea neighbours : from the fifth century to the Viking Age / edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hines, John, 1956- editor.

IJssennagger, Nelleke, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frisians--History.

Frisians.

Frisians--North Sea--History.

Frisians--Baltic Sea--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Frisians and their North Sea neighbors : from the fifth century to the Viking Age

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These were apparently Celtic-speaking peoples, but that population was probably completely replaced in the course of the convulsions that Europe underwent during the fourth and fifth centuries. While the importance of linguistically Germanic Frisians as neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West is widely recognized, these folk themselves remain enigmatic, the details of their culture and organization unfamiliar to many. The Frisian population and their lands, including all the coastal communities of the North Sea region and their connections with the Baltic shores, form the focal point of this volume, though viewed often through comparison with, or even through the eyes of, their neighbors. The essays present the most up-to-date discoveries, research and interpretation, following the story of the various Frisians through from the Roman Period to the next great period of disruption and change introduced by the Scandinavian Vikings. Methodologically, the thorough combination and integration of linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence offers a new multidisciplinary template and sets new standards for Early Medieval studies.

Contents:

1 Palaeogeography and People: Historical Frisians in an archaeological light / Egge Knot Knot, Egge, Nelleke IJssennagger IJssennagger, Nelleke 5

2 The Anglo-Frisian Question / John Mines Mines, John 25

3 Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Periods: Language contact, Celts and Romans / Peter Schrijver Schrijver, Peter 43

4 'All quiet on the Western Front?' The Western Netherlands and the 'North Sea Culture' in the Migration Period / Menno Dijkstra Dijkstra, Menno, Jan de Koning Koning, Jan de 53

5 Power and Identity in the Southern North Sea Area: The Migration and Merovingian Periods / Johan Nicolay Nicolay, Johan 75

6 How 'English' is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus? The evidence of sounds and forms / Gaby Waxenberger Waxenberger, Gaby 93

7 The Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River-basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon / Arjen Versloot Versloot, Arjen, Elzbieta Adamczyk Adamczyk, Elzbieta 125

8 Between Sievern and Gudendorf: Enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe- Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period / Iris Aufderhaar Aufderhaar, Iris 149

9 Cultural Convergence in a Maritime Context: Language and material culture as parallel phenomena in the early-medieval southern North Sea region / Pieterjan Deckers Deckers, Pieterjan 173

10 The Kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental Connections, c. AD 600-900 / Tim Pestell Pestell, Tim 193

11 A Comparison of the Injury Tariffs in the Early Kentish and the Frisian Law Codes / Han Nijdam Nijdam, Han 223

12 Cultural Contacts between the Western Baltic, the North Sea Region and Scandinavia: Attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age / Christiane Zimmermann Zimmermann, Christiane, Hauke Jöns Jöns, Hauke 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783271795

1783271795

OCLC:

985884174

Publisher Number:

99974356237