The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions: A Linguistic & Historical Philological Analysis (Filologisk Filosofiska Serien No 21)

Enver A. Makaev's "The Language of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions" was published in 1965. The present translation into English makes this important contribution to runic and Germanic linguistic scholarship available at last to the scholarly world at large, not merely as the subject of historiographical interest, but as a still valid appeal to runologists everywhere to abandon the wild and unfounded speculations so rampant in runological studies and to adopt a more scientific approach to these most ancient of all Germanic texts, in keeping with the advances in comparative and historical linguistics.