Northern Voices

This book contains a wealth of new essays on many aspects of Germanic Philology, and the range reflects the scholarly activity of the dedicatee of this festschrift. Section I contains articles on historical philology as this relates to the Old Germanic languages and literatures; Section II contains essays on various aspects of Frisian and Frisian studies; Section III is devoted to the relationship between the Germanic and the Balto-Finnic languages; the articles in Section IV consist of applications of the methods and insights of modern linguistics to the study of the Germanic languages.

Introduction
Tette Hofstra: Publications (1971-2007)
Germanic Philology and History
Von gotisch sa lausjands bis neuwestfriesisch de ferlosser. Zur Erfolgsgeschichte eines christologischen Hoheitstitels in alten und neuen Bibelubersetzungen	p. 1
Grettis saga and the indicium dei	p. 19
Welche Vorlage suchen wir? Untersuchung der äNiederlandismen" in: Zurich, Zentralbibliothek, C 170 App. 56	p. 41
A Net of Words: Old English net and max	p. 71
Dialect in English Literature: Chaucer, Shakespeare and Cockney	p. 83
OE scop and the Singing Welsh Bishop	p. 99
From Cultural Outcast to Cosmic Enemy: Giant-Kennings in Skaldic Mythological Poetry	p. 123
Zur Freilassungsformel in den Malbergischen Glossen der äLex Salica'	p. 139
Explorations Concerning Spelling and Pronunciation in Groningen: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Inventories	p. 149
Goths and Gothic in Sixteenth-Century Sweden	p. 165
Frisian
Was bedeutet dura and derne, loc and locstef in den altemsfriesischen Bu[beta]taxen? Mit etymologischen und wortgeographischen Beitragen zu afries. derne, andern und (lok-)stef	p. 173
Saxon Loans in Rustring Old Frisian	p. 191
Wellerismen in Friesland	p. 203
Johann Friedrich Minssen: Frisian Scholar, Neighbour of Bismarck, and Host of the Young Churchill	p. 229
In een werheyde dissis meckbrewis Altfriesische Ehevertrage, insbesondere ihre Terminologie	p. 241
Finno-ugric
Finnisch noyra 'demutig - ein germanisches Lehnwort?	p. 265
Ostseefinnisches uve(h) < *u[beta]eh 'Hengst': ein germanisches Lehnwort?	p. 273
Latein, Deutsch und Estnisch: Sprache und Sittlichkeit am Beispiel einer Episode aus dem estnischen Nationalepos	p. 279
Haben die Ungarn das Zahlen von den Slawen erlernt? Nochmals zum Ursprung des ung. tiz-en-egy usw. '11, d.h.: 1 auf der 10' usw	p. 295
The Etymology of Finnish sauna 'Sauna'	p. 313
Zwei alte skandinavische Lehnworter im Saamischen	p. 321
Linguistics
Aspektuelle und sprecher- bzw. persongebundene Bestimmungskomponenten deutscher Modalverben	p. 327
Meankieli: Language or Dialect? An Analysis of the Interplay Between Linguistic and Extra-linguistic Criteria	p. 349
Variation in the Aggregate: An Alternative Perspective for Variationist Linguistics	p. 365
East Scandinavian Pa: a Preposition of the 'Third Kind'	p. 383
Almost Perfect: Some Notes on the Present Perfect Puzzle	p. 399
Notes on the contributors	p. 405
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