We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
DIE AUFGLIEDERUNG DER GERMANISCHEN SPRACHEN.
- Authors
Seebold, Elmar
- Abstract
The East Germanic (Gothic) migration brought the Proto-Germanic continuum to an end. although without disrupting it. It was eventually broken by the departure of the Saxon and Anglian tribes who conquered Britain, and the Danes invading Jutland, presumably from Sweden. Historical sources, however, show a more complicated picture of this conquest: At an early stage. Jutlandic and probably Scandinavian conquerors, called by themselves Saxons, occupied the North-Sea coastline of the continent (from the Elbe to Frisia) and that of the south and east of Britain. The inhabitants of the conquered territories except Frisia later took the name of the Saxons. After the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain, the 'British Saxons" were strengthened by their fellows from Saxony and Frisia. and invited the Angles to join them. In the end. we find four new linguistic continua in Middle and Northern Europe: The Scandianvian continuum (including Jutland), the continental, the Frisian and the English continuum.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); UNITED Kingdom; GERMANY (West); GERMANY; PROTO-Germanic language; SAXONS; ETHNOLOGY; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 2013, Vol 66, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0108-8416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/nowele.66.1.04see