This volume brings together essays by friends and colleagues of Heinrich Beck, editor of the Encyclopedia of Germanic Antiquity Studies (RGA) and cofounder of the Supplementary Volumes to the RGA and the database Germanic Antiquity Studies Online (GAO), with topics ranging from early medieval archaeology, and Old Germanic and Old Norse literature, to linguistics, onomastics, runology, and medieval Scandinavian history.

Wilhelm Heizmann, LMU München, Germany; Jan Alexander van Nahl, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.