Author: Gammeltoft, Peder ; & Jørgensen, Bent ; editors :
Title: Names through the Looking-glass : Festschrift in Honour of Gillian Fellows-Jensen, July 5th 2006
Description: Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 2006. orig. wrappers. 24x16cm, xviii,350 pp. ISBN: 8778764726. Minor wear. VG. ¶ A festschrift containing 16 papers, all in English. Includes: Daner and Svear: Tribal rivalry in prehistoric Scandinavia; Houseby, Harray and Knarston in the West Mainland of Orkney: Toponymic indicators of administrative authority? The Danish river name 'Guden': a suggested interpretation and a contribution to Danish phonology; Scandinavian influence on Hebridean island names; Anglo-Norse place names on the Yorkshire Wolds; Some reflections on the distribution and significance of Norse place-names in northern Scotland; The owl of Ousden and a morphological conundrum; Field-name statistics, Norfolk & the Danelaw; etc.

Keywords: 8778764726 Scandinavian Toponyms, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Etymology, Place Names, Linguistic History, Germanic, Old Norse, Linguistics