Scandinavian Language Structures: A Comparative Historical Survey

From rear cover notes: "The Scandinavian languages constitute the northern branch of the Germanic family of languages; the earliest written evidences of any Germanic language are found in the runic inscriptions of Scandinavia, dating back to 200 A.D. Here Einar Haugen provides a concentrated survey of the development of the Scandinavian languages from earliest Proto-Scandinavian down to the six modern standard languages: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian (nynorsk), Norwegian (bokmal), Danish, and Swedish...."