Beitrage Zur RunenKunde und Nordischen Sprachwissenschaft [Contributions to Rune Studies and Nordic Linguistics]

Text in German. 194pp (some uncut).  Printed stiff card wraps.  8vo.  Covers are worn and a little discoloured, gently rubbed at edges with one corner soiled and curled.  A small slip has been cut out of the title page (possibly removing a previous owner's name?) else volume is internally neat, clean and tight if perhaps a little less than bright in places. A collection of essays on runic studies and Nordic history from a variety of authors, compiled to mark the 6oth birthday of Gustav Neckel.  Neckel was a German philologist who specialised in Germanic studies and Old Norse and held that the all Germanic sources, regardless of age or location, contributed to a unified Germanic culture - one which was superior to the medieval Christian culture which eventually dominated it.