NOWELE (North-Western European Language Evolution) is devoted not only to the study of the history and prehistory of a locally determined group of languages, but also to the study of purely theoretical questions concerning historical language development. NOWELE contains articles dealing with all aspects of the (pre-)histories of - and with intra- and extralinguistic factors contributing to change and variation within - Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish Danish, Frisian, Dutch, German, English, Gothic and the early Runic language.
NOWELE appears biannuallym each issue containing approx. 144 pages.