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Comitatus, Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary

By John Lindow

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1976
ISBN
0520095499, 9780520095496
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9653252 bytes)
Series
University of California Publications in Linguistics, 83
Pages
194\200
Topic
History
Time added
2021-05-30 17:51:34

Description

This study examines one area of lexico-cultural relationship for a specific period of a specific language group: it investigates an important social institution of the proto-Nordic period in light of (1) the vocabulary actually retained in the Old Scandinavian dialects, OIc., ONw., ODa., and OSw., and (2) comparative evidence from the other Germanic and Indo-European dialects. The institution examined is the 'comitatus', first described by Tacitus and thought to have survived until the Middle Ages in Scandinavia. The study comprises an investigation of the terminology for the collective and for the individual member of the group, as well as one important institutional aspect of the 'comitatus' relationship, the notion of honor. PREFACE xi ABBREVIATIONS xiii CHAPTER 1. AIMS AND METHODOLOGY 1 CHAPTER 2. THE GERMANIC COMITATUS 10 CHAPTER 3. THE NORDIC COMITATUS 42 CHAPTER 4. INDIVIDUAL AND COMITATUS 84 CHAPTER 5. HONOR AND COMITATUS 126 BIBLIOGRAPHY 145 INDEX VERBORUM 165

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