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Comitatus, Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary

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This study examines one area of lexico-cultural relationship for a specific period of a specific language group: it investigates an important social institution of the proto-Nordic period in light of (1) the vocabulary actually retained in the Old Scandinavian dialects, OIc., ONw., ODa., and OSw., and (2) comparative evidence from the other Germanic and Indo-European dialects. The institution examined is the 'comitatus', first described by Tacitus and thought to have survived until the Middle Ages in Scandinavia. The study comprises an investigation of the terminology for the collective and for the individual member of the group, as well as one important institutional aspect of the 'comitatus' relationship, the notion of honor.

Author(s): John Lindow
Series: University of California Publications in Linguistics, 83
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1976

Language: English
Pages: 194
City: Berkeley

PREFACE xi
ABBREVIATIONS xiii
CHAPTER 1. AIMS AND METHODOLOGY 1
CHAPTER 2. THE GERMANIC COMITATUS 10
CHAPTER 3. THE NORDIC COMITATUS 42
CHAPTER 4. INDIVIDUAL AND COMITATUS 84
CHAPTER 5. HONOR AND COMITATUS 126
BIBLIOGRAPHY 145
INDEX VERBORUM 165