期刊名称：Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies
电子版ISSN：1892-0950
出版年度：2010
期号：1
页码：85-107
出版社：University of Oslo & Uppsala University
摘要：Runic inscriptions in the older fuþark have so far been the subject chiefly of two types of scholarly investigation. The first may be called corpus presentations or corpus studies, which regard the inscriptions above all from the point of view of their common characteristics. Criteria which establish the inscriptions in the older fuþark as a single and homogeneous corpus have been (a) the use of a stable inventory of graphemes, and (b) — leaving the scattered and controversial evidence of Gothic features in the older runic language aside (cf. Peterson 1998 for a critical survey) — the apparently homogeneous, pre- or supradialectal language which was initially labelled “Spätgemeingermanisch” (Kuhn 1955), subsequently renamed “Northwest Germanic” (Antonsen 1965), and — focussing on the long-lasting “exceptional linguistic uniformity” — is sometimes referred to as a “runic koiné” (Makaev 1996 [1965], 45).
