Katholische
Universität Eichstätt
Prof. Dr. Alfred
Bammesberger
e-mail:
alfred.bammesberger@ku-eichstaett.de
Dr.
Gaby Waxenberger
e-mail: gabriele.waxenberger@ku-eichstaett.de
Franks
Casket, British
Museum, London
Old English Runes Project
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Katholische
Universität Eichstätt
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THE PAPER EDITION CONTAINS
individual data on the object (description, dating, find-place, etc.) and its context, its inscription (e.g. description of runes, transcription, reading, and interpretation of text), the linguistic section (dialect, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, word-formation, etymology), a glossary, discussion of motifs, and a bibliography.
an extensive introduction and
a complete bibliography on runic inscriptions.
THE
DATA-BASE
is a project initiated by Prof. Dr. Edith Marold (Kiel
University). She and her team have been preparing the inscriptions
of the Older Fuþark; the Old English and Old Frisian
inscriptions are part of the Eichstaett project.
For the user with
individual interests the data bank ensures quick access to the
material: it provides an overview over previous research work. Not
only will the user of the data bank be able to combine the four masks
(FIND; INTERPRETATION; INDIVIDUAL WORDS; BIBLIOGRAPHY) or parts of
them individually but he will also have access to all the runic
inscriptions in both older Fuþark and Fuþorc
(Old English and Old Frisian) in two languages (German and English).
In comparison to the data bank the paper edition's corpus is smaller but its information is more detailed since we are not restricted to the limited capacity of data fields (256 characters). Therefore the paper edition is not confined to an overview but provides more space for our own research.