Bernard Mees

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernard Mees plays a role.

Journal

ISSN 0108-8416 | E-ISSN 2212-9715
Mees, Bernard 2025 The Tienen inscription and the dialectal position of TungrianGermanic Interrelations: Studies in memory of Hans Frede Nielsen, Laker, Stephen, Carla Falluomini, Steffen Krogh, Robert Nedoma and Michael Schulte (eds.), pp. 247–275 | Chapter
An inscription found in the early 1980s during an excavation at Tienen in Flemish Brabant, Flanders, appears to preserve the oldest attested Germanic sentence from Belgium. Dating to the same period as the earliest runic texts, the Tienen inscription is particularly interesting from the… read more
The Vimose plane features an early runic inscription that has long remained opaque, with none of the attempts to explain it having commanded assent in the historiography. Like the inscription on the Vimose buckle, however, the text on the wood plane appears to preserve an early example of West… read more
Mees, Bernard 2015 The Vimose Dedication as Ritual LanguageNOWELE 68:2, pp. 129–151 | Article
The inscription on the Vimose buckle has been the subject of a long and diverse historiography. Taken in the light of early runic epigraphic typology, however, the inscription appears to preserve an early example of Germanic ritual language. Rather than a product of Romanisation (as archaeologists… read more
Mees, Bernard 2006 Early Rhineland GermanicNOWELE Volume 49 (August 2006), pp. 13–49 | Article
Mees, Bernard 2003 Runic erilaRNOWELE Volume 42 (March 2003), pp. 41–68 | Article
MacLeod, Mindy and Bernard Mees 2001 The Triple Binds of Kragehul and UndleyNOWELE Volume 38 (March 2001), pp. 17–35 | Article