This volume provides an in-depth study of the history and dynamics of the Icelandic medieval lexicon, achieved through the analysis of word pairs con sisting of loanwords and native words that coexist or compete across a variety of textual contexts.As stated by Tarsi (p.27): "The research hypoth esis underlying the study is that the interplay between loanwords and en do g enous words is rooted in the period anteceding linguistic purism, and that such a phenomenon, which is common cross-linguistically, must have arisen primarily due to lexical needs, including coining semantically transpar entwordsfornewconcepts."Thereferenceperiodrangesfromthefirst writ tenattestations(ca.1150)tothepublicationofthefirstprintedbookinIce landic, OddurGottsklksson'sTranslationoftheNewTestament(1540).This is basically the same period covered by A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP),withthesoleexceptionoftheadditionofOddurGottsklks son's worktothecorpus,whichseemstobethemainreasonforincludingthe rela tivelyuncommonconceptof'MiddleIcelandic'.TheIntroductionplacestheworkintotheframeoflinguisticstudiescon cerningloanwords,thusstatingtheterminologyusedintheirclassification.The theoretical framework of the study is based on Gusmani's extensive workonlinguisticinterference,withBetz(1959)providingamodelforthe analy sis and terminology employed.As the title suggests, Tarsi distinguishes be tween lexemes of foreign origin (loanwords) and endogenous (native) lexemes.Each of the two groupings is further divided into categories.The term loanword (with its synonyms loan and borrowing) encompasses both words which are adapted to Icelandic on the phonological and/or morphological level, and integral loans, i.e. words which are not integrated.Among the native words three typologies are distinguished: calques (semantic and structural), neoformations (native coinages) and inherited lexemes.Two more terms used in the text fall outside of this taxonomy, but are

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