The volume provides collected papers by the Indo-Europeanist Günter Neumann (1920-2005) on Germanic, and especially Old Germanic, names. The author's main interest lays in the semantic and etymological interpretation of personal and place names, together with exploring the motivation behind the giving of names. Here, the link with historical studies is particularly evident.

Heinrich Hettrich, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg; Astrid van Nahl, Vettelschoß.