From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 1993| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1993 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ed. by Alfred Bammesberger, Anglistische Forschungen, 217 (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1991). 632 pp.; 14 plates. ISBN 3-533-04464-5; 3-533-04463-7. DM 100 (hard covers); DM 75 (p/b).

The majority of articles in this book originated in papers read at a conference on Old English runes and runic inscriptions held at the University of Eichstatt in 1989, with a few further articles added which contribute to the same subject. It is a sign of the success of Alfred Bammesberger's editorial policy that the volume emerges as a wide-ranging assessment of the current ...