Trümmersprache und Diplomatie. Beobachtungen zum Awarischen in der fränkischen Historiographie

Abstract

Achim Hack: Corpus Language and Diplomacy – Observations on the Avar language in Frankish Historiography

The following article deals with the numerous languages in the Frankish Empire of the early Middle Ages. It focuses on the corpus language Avar, of which very few remains have survived. Some titles are transmitted in Frankish historiography due to the diplomatic contacts of the Carolingians with the various Avar rulers: Khagan, Tudun, Kapkhan, Canizanci, etc.