1. Editorial Introduction; 2. Entlehnung und Urverwandtschaft im vorliterarischen germanischen Wortschatz (by Seebold, Elmar); 3. The Stratigraphy of the Germanic Loanwords in Finnic (by Kallio, Petri); 4. Baltisch, Slavisch, Germanisch - Kontakte und Beziehungen aus der Sicht der Onomastik (by Udolph, Jurgen); 5. Gothic Contact with Greek: Loan Translations and a Translation Problem (by Snaedal, Magnus); 6. Gothic Contact with Latin: Gotica Parisina and Wulfila's Alphabet (by Snaedal, Magnus); 7. Die langobardischen Sprachreste in Italien und ihr Beitrag zur Kenntnis des langobardischen Konsonantismus (by Falluomini, Carla); 8. What is Visigothic and What is Frankish in Medieval and Later Spanish? (by Sohrman, Ingmar); 9. Zwei "neue" Inschriften aus Frankreich im Kontext der Ausbreitung norditalischer Alphabete (by Egetmeyer, Markus); 10. Onomastik und Deonomastik im keltisch-germanischen Sprachkontakt (by Rubekeil, Ludwig); 11. Norse-English Runic Contacts (by Barnes, Michael P.); 12. Identifying and Dating Norse-Derived Terms in Medieval English: Approaches and Problems (by Pons-Sanz, Sara M.); 13. Language Contact and Consonant Shift in Germanic: The Witness of Aspiration (by Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav); 14. Some Unsolved (and Probably Insoluble) Aspects of Initial Fricative Voicing in Early English: Voicing in Early English Viewed as Part of the Great Germanic Lenition (by Liberman, Anatoly); 15. The Vowel Systems of Old English, Old Norse and Old High German Compared (by Nielsen, Hans Frede); 16. Review Article (by Mulder, Simon); 17. Index

[I]n all cases, scholars are able to make compelling arguments based on thorough analysis of what is often times scarce or incomplete evidence. The area of debate is in the details, which is fought over fiercely – and rightfully so. The contributions in this volume are largely prolegomena on contested or unresolved issues in Germanic historical linguistics, and each chapter is worthy of its place in the collection. The volume as a whole suggests a continuing and lively discourse in the field, and productive disagreement on a number of questions central to the history of Germanic.