This is a multilingual two-volume collection assembling 43 contributions on late antique and early medieval Germanic glossography and lexicography by the major experts in the field from Europe and North America. The essays present cutting edge research on a diverse of range of topics concerning the lexicon and the glossographical production in the late antique and early medieval Germanic world with a special emphasis on the relationship between the latter and the legacy of the classical world. The volumes are complemented with a very useful set of indexes (index of manuscripts and index of authors and works).