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Etymology and Wordplay in Medieval Literature ed. by Mikael Males (review)

would likely be lower. It can be inferred that perhaps a half to two-thirds of the legal lexicon in West Norse may not yet been included in LMNL. I cannot easily repeat this method for the East Norse material, but it can be presumed that the same is likely to hold true, although likely to a smaller extent. The omissions from LMNL also occur at a semantic level. The word seta, for example, is cited from Gulaþingslǫg four times in ONP (onp.ku.dk/o68009) with a different sense for each (roughly “residence,” “defensive position,” “office, post,” “(high ranking) slave-woman”). Only one sense, however, is recorded in LMNL (“housemaid,” p. 295), and not one of the two most common ones documented in ONP. In Fritzner’s dictionary, for comparison, the word appears as two homographs with different senses and references to Gulaþingslǫg in each. There are some issues with the electronic resource which will no doubt be addressed in future versions. I would like to see a search function for the “English to Norse” glosses, so that key words within English translations can be found more easily, and the resulting entries should be linked online to the actual articles. The process of linking headwords to ONP revealed a few typographic errors, such as the headwords elder (for eldr) and félagksapr (for félagskapr), but none which would prevent the user from finding the words. (These have been sent already to the editors and corrected in the online version.) In its treatment of equivalent terminology across the medieval Nordic languages LMNL is a groundbreaking resource for the comparative study of medieval law. It provides a model, albeit one requiring refinement, for how other lexicographic works might proceed with the coverage of cognate words across related languages within a given semantic or social field. All those interested in the functioning of law and society in the early Nordic world will no doubt find many things here to help them in improving that understanding, particularly when the e-book and online versions are used in conjunction with each other, overcoming some of the present drawbacks of each. Further development of the digital resource will no doubt be implemented in time, but the main substantive improvement has to be in an extensive broadening of the coverage of the legal lexicon and its semantics. Tarrin Wills University of Copenhagen