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Language and History in the Early Germanic World
AuthorDennis Howard Green
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEarly Germanic culture
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
1998
Pages438
ISBN0-521-47134-6 Hardback
OCLC468327031

Language and history in the early Germanic world is a book by Dennis Howard Green, the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge. It was published in hardback by Cambridge University Press in 1998. The book uses linguistic evidence for the study of early Germanic culture and history. A paperback edition was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. An Italian translation was published in 2015.

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