Review of Altnordische Philologie, edited by O. E. Haugen

Altnordische Philologie is the German translation of Handbok i norrøn filologi, published in Norwegian in 2004. As a collection of interdependent articles which combine to cover a subject fully it is a ''handbook''; ''philology'' is used to denote the complete set of disciplines needed to interpret the writings of a given language, including palaeography, historical linguistics, and textual criticism. The editor, Odd Einar Haugen, is Professor of Norse Philology at the University of Bergen, and the Director of the Medieval Nordic Text Archive; all of the other contributors hold similar positions in different universities throughout Norway.