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The Significance of the Place-Name Element *funta in the Early Middle Ages

Jillian Hawkins
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*Funta place-names, epitomize the complex network of linguistic and historical intersections in post-Roman Britain. It was a Latin term originally, but adopted and adapted by non-Romans, and used to describe liminal spaces where British and Germanic peoples met. Despite their relevance to a number of key questions about interactions between these cultures, they have never been systematically catalogued and studied before. This research, combining linguistic and archaeological analysis, remedies this. The book provides a detailed gazetteer of sites, extensive analysis and interpretation and, finally, an explanation of language usage and development in the fifth century. It precisely defines the *funta element in place names for the first time. It also discusses the development of British to Old English culture, and provides an insight into peaceful interactions between the different cultures that made up early Anglo-Saxon England, to temper the more traditional characterization of this period as a Dark Age.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Background to the study: how Britain became England
  • Chapter 2. Language use in fifth-century Britain, the influence of Latin and the early development of Old English, with reference to the place-name element *funta
  • Chapter 3. *funta sites and pre-English place-names in their surrounding areas
  • Chapter 3, Part 1. Areas with more than one *funta site
  • Chapter 3, Part 2. Areas with a single *funta site
  • Chapter 4. Analysis and Discussion
  • Chapter 5. Interpretation and suggestions for future research
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix 1: Gazetteer of sites
  • Appendix 2: Additional material
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Published: 2015
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407313757 (paperback)
  • 9781407322988 (ebook)
BAR Number: B614
Subject
  • British Isles
  • Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
  • Place-Names
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