Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations of linguistic terms -- Abbreviations of sources -- Languages and the periods they cover -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: A synchronic analysis of 13th century relative clauses in the Nordic languages -- 1. Choice of Old Norse and Middle Danish data -- 2. What is a relative clause? -- 3. Complementation or adjunction? -- 4. A short introduction to Old Norse relative clauses -- 5. Referential properties of Old Norse relative complexes -- 6. Does Old Norse have a relative pronoun? -- 7. Free relative clauses and correlatives -- 8. Locational clauses -- 9. Temporal clauses -- Part 2: A diachronic analysis of relative clauses in Middle Norwegian, Younger Middle Danish and beyond -- 10. Choice of post-1300 Norwegian data -- 11. W-pronouns in relative contexts -- 12. Then in Middle Norwegian and beyond -- 13. Relative complementizers in the Nordic languages -- 14. 0-RCs in Middle Norwegian - an introduction -- 15. 0-RCs in Middle Norwegian and Middle Danish - a descriptive account -- 16. Theoretical approaches to 0-RCs -- 17. An analysis of 0-RCs in Middle Norwegian and Middle Danish -- 18. Summary and some concluding remarks -- References -- Index