The volume providescollectedpapers by the Indo-Europeanist Gunter Neumann (1920-2005) on Germanic, and especially Old Germanic, names. The author's main interest lays in the semantic and etymological interpretation of personal and place names, together with exploring the motivation behind the giving of names. Here, the link with historical studies is particularly evident."
Author Biography
Heinrich Hettrich, Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg; Astrid van Nahl, Vettelschoss."
