Zapożyczenia niemieckie w Krzyżakach Henryka Sienkiewicza

This article contains a stylistic-lexical analysis of German loan-words which appear in Krzyżacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its aim was to decide about the function of this group of loan-words in creation of the presented world in the novel. Material basis, counting 235 lexical units, was grouped and described in several semantic categories concerned, among other things, with: 1. different branches of economy, 2. widely understood socio-political life, 3. daily life and customs. The main text is accompanied by a dictionary of all German loan-words, which included, apart from basic information such as: defi nition and frequency, also their location in different lexico-graphic sources.