Eichstätt-München

The research unit Eichstätt-München deals with the Old English and the Frisian runic inscriptions and their relation to each other. On the basis of a comprehensive linguistic investigation, there will be a re-evaluation of the long-standing question of whether there are two corpora, i.e. an Old English and a Frisian one, or whether the possibility of there being actually only one joint Anglo-Frisian corpus should be taken into consideration.

In the context of the theoretical-methodological preparation of Modules II "Runic Graphemics" and III "Runic Text Grammar and Pragmatics", interdisciplinary meetings with archaeologists, historians and art-historians are held on a regular basis, e.g. in the "Old English Runes Workshop: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodology" (2012), the conference "Across the North Sea" (2014) organized by the Fries Museum Leeuwarden or smaller workshops, e.g. at the Norwich Castle Museum.

Heads of the research unit:
Prof. Dr. Alfred Bammesberger, Prof. Dr. Ursula Lenker, Prof. Dr. Elke Ronneberger-Sibold.

Deputy heads:
PD Dr. Kerstin Kazzazi, Prof. Dr. Gaby Waxenberger.