Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours

Introduction: The Frisians - who, when, where, why? - John Hines and 1. Paleogeography and people: historical Frisians in an archaeological light - Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm and Egge Knol 2. The Anglo-Frisian question - John Hines Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Period: language contact, Celts and Romans - Peter Schrijver 3. 'All quiet on the Western Front'? The western Netherlands and the 'North Sea Culture' in the Migration Period - Jan de Koning 4. Power and identity in the southern North Sea area: the Migration and Merovingian Periods - Johan Nicolay 5. How 'English' is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus? The evidence of sounds and forms - Gaby Waxenberger 6. Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon - Arjen Verlsoot 7. Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon - Elzbieta Adamczyk 8. Between Sievern and Gudendorf: enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe-Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period - Iris Aufderhaar 9. Cultural convergence in a maritime context: language and material culture as parallel phenomena in the Early-medieval southern North Sea region - Pieterjan Deckers 10. The kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental connections c. 600 900 - Tim Pestell 11. A comparison of the injury tariffs in the early Kentish and the Frisian law codes - Han Nijdam 12. Cultural contacts between the western Baltic, the North Sea region, and Scandinavia: attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age - Hauke Jöns 13. Cultural contacts between the western Baltic, the North Sea region, and Scandinavia: attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age - Christiane Zimmermann

Edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm