Advances in Old Frisian Philology is the third thematic volume in the series Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik dedicated entirely to study of Medieval Frisian language, literature, history and culture. Like its two predecessors, Aspects of Old Frisian Philology (1990, repr. 2007) and Approaches to Old Frisian Philology (1998), the current volume combines the expertise of scholars of medieval Frisian studies with that of specialists from adjacent fields who have been invited to bring their expertise to the discipline of Old Frisian. In addition to contributions on the Old Frisian law codices, literary texts, customs and law, many of the twenty articles in the current volume concentrate on linguistic topics, such as runic inscriptions, phonology, syntax, semantics, language contact, loanwords and dialectal issues of scribal transmission.

Contents

List of Abbreviations Rolf H. Bremmer Jr: Old Frisian Philology: Along the Road Alderik H. Blom: Language Admixture in the Old West Frisian Basle Wedding Speeches Rolf H. Bremmer Jr: Language and Contents of the Old Frisian Manuscripts from Rüstringen (c.1300): A ‘Veritable Mixtum Compositum’ Kees Dekker: Sibrandus Siccama on the Lex Frisionum (1617): Frisian Identity as a Philological Construct Siebren Dyk: Jorwert Breaking: A Late Old West Frisian Sound Change Concetta Giliberto: The Fifteen Signs of Doomsday of the First Riustring Manuscript Eric Hoekstra and Sjoerd M. Siebinga: Exploring the Distribution of aeng, the Old Frisian Counterpart of Modern English any, Modern Dutch enig Stephen Laker: Palatalization of Velars: A Major Link of Old English and Old Frisian Erika Langbroek: Die Sprache von Bernardus Rordahusim in der niederdeutschen Apokalypse der Baseler Handschrift F.VII.12, folio 211r-217r Rosemarie Lühr: Bedingungssätze in altfriesischen Rechtstexten Henk D. Meijering: Dat nye lantrecht. Altfriesisches Recht im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert – Nachleben oder Neuanfang? Johannes A. Mol: Gallows in Late Medieval Frisia Roberta Nedoma: Die voraltfriesischen Personennamen der Runeninschriften auf dem Webschwert von Westeremden, dem Schwertchen von Arum und anderen Denkmälern Anne Tjerk Popkema: Die altfriesischen Eidesbezeichnungen Irmengard Rauch: Gender Semiotics, Anglo-Frisian wīf, and Old Frisian Noun Gender Joseph C. Salmons: What Old Frisian Can Tell Us about the History of I-Umlaut across West Germanic Laura Catherine Smith: Old Frisian Vowel Balance and its Relationship to West Germanic Apocope and Syncope Ineke VAN ‘T Spijker: The Vita Siardi: Inwardness, Community and Heavenly Bliss in Thirteenth-century Frisia Oebele Vries: Her Bendix is wrbeck fonden. Die altfriesische Terminologie im Bereich des Zivilprozessrechtes David Yeandle: Early Christian Loans in Old Frisian: The Linguistic Evidence List of Contributors