Antonsen — Runes and Germanic Linguistics (2002)

Summary

A collection of Antonsen's papers with a linguistic / phonological slant: runes as a writing system for the early Germanic languages, and the reconstruction of the meanings of runic signs through historical phonology. Technical, for a prepared reader.

• historical-fact An academic reference on the linguistics of the early runes. —
• A number of Antonsen's positions (his treatment of the "common Germanic" stage of the early runic) are contested in the field — to be recorded as one interpretation, not as the consensus.

Quality of the evidence

De Gruyter Mouton, peer-reviewed; high academic standing. A source for the reconstructed proto-forms of the names of the Elder Futhark runes (see the box in the rune poems (Dickins 1915)).