The Lexicon of >Muspilli

Muspilli has long been fascinating – and frustrating – scholars. Fragmentary, enigmatic, and haunting in its vision of the End of the world, it has even been described as the most problematic work in Old High German Literature. Yet for all the attention devoted to its theological, literary, and historical relevance, comparatively little attention has been paid to its lexicon.
The volume offers the first comprehensive lexical analysis of the Old High German Muspilli. Rather than approaching t...