The volume contains 19 articles corresponding in their spectrum to the broad academic interests of Otmar Werner. They deal with orthography and writing change, runes; island Nordic (Icelandic, Faeroese); contrastive linguistics (German-Scandinavian); linguistic ddescription of German from phonology, morphology, syntax, dialectology to pragmatics; general linguistic (language change) theory, language history and onomastics of Scandinavia; medieval Scandinavian literature. The volume closes with a complete listing of Otmar Werner's publications.