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Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Linguistic Conventions and Abbreviations -- Abstracts -- Introduction: Frisians - Who, When, Where, Why? -- 1. Palaeogeography and People: Historical Frisians in an archaeological light -- 2. The Anglo-Frisian Question -- 3. Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Periods: Language contact, Celts and Romans -- 4. 'All quiet on the Western Front?' The Western Netherlands and the 'North Sea Culture' in the Migration Period -- 5. Power and Identity in the Southern North Sea Area: The Migration and Merovingian Periods -- 6. How 'English' is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus? The evidence of sounds and forms -- 7. The Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River-basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon -- 8. Between Sievern and Gudendorf: Enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe-Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period -- 9. Cultural Convergence in a Maritime Context: Language and material culture as parallel phenomena in the early-medieval southern North Sea region -- 10. The Kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental Connections, c. ad 600-900 -- 11. A Comparison of the Injury Tariffs in the Early Kentish and the Frisian Law Codes -- 12. Cultural Contacts between the Western Baltic, the North Sea Region and Scandinavia: Attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age -- Index.

An investigation into the mysterious Frisians, drawing together evidence from linguistic, textual and archaeological sources.

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