On behalf of the Board and editors of The Heroic Age, I would like to announce the publication of Issue 11. My special thanks go out to Linda Malcor, Deanna...
For you who haven't seen it or don't know about it, check it out at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Legion I saw it from at a friends house and...
... I did not see the movie so I cannot comment on it. I read the book, which is entertaining, pleasing to read and well-built. I do not like the author's...
Greetings all, In Mr. Heather's The Goths, on pg 291, he writes "a formula from the early seventh-century shows that it was by then standard for marriage ...
Greetings all, in Mr Heathers The Goths in the Fourth Century, pg157, he refers to extant "fragments of Ezra", and " a few sentences of a Gothic homily". I...
Hi g scaff! Morgengabe, i.e. Morning gift, is common in all Germanic Europe also in the Middle Ages. It is the bride that receives it from the groom in order...
... The fragments of Ezra are the same thing as the fragments of Nehemiah. The Book of Nehemiah is counted as part of Ezra in some Bibles. You can read them...
Dear All! The Moneta web site is now updated with some new links in the "e-papers" section: you are free to download scholarly texts, publications and...
I was thinking that a list of Gothic forms of various names would be nice. Many common western names come from either Hebrew, Greek, Latin, or Germanic roots;...
According to Wikipedia, "with that final defeat,the remaining Ostrogoths went back north and (re)settled in south Austria." I had never heard this before, so I...
Wasn't there some World War II-era thesis that claimed that the Croatians weren't Slavs but descendants of the Ostrogoths? This sounds liek it might come from...
think they settled in southern austria and northern italy......dont think they settled in and around milan, but the other northern areas sound right..... ...
I can only imagine how the Ostrogothic warriors felt - without a homeland, defeated, hated and feared across southern Europe - I can't envision any particular...
Logical place for emigrant Ostrogoths would be Visigothic Gaul (Languedoc was Gothic for quite a while after this). Quite a few appear to have taken service...
... Latin, ... Gothic ... Yes I think that too. I would perhaps be quite easy to list all the names attested in the bible, right? And names of gothic kings are...
In responding to gadrauhts, I would submit Frithureiks; see cf. Frithugairns (shortened by Romans, perhaps by others, to Fritigern). Attila's bride:...
Actually, Wright includes a list of proper names and some notes on Gothic renderings of the Greek forms. We could expand that by: 1. Including synonyms 2....
I'v been pondering aboout some namerelated stuff. Names are nouns and I guess they are inflected as such. Some languages (such as baltic) add suffixes to...
What is Gothic for Karl Marx I wonder Ka(i)rls Marks (gen. Markis) or Markss (Marksis)? The latter seems likelier, but there's no example of a final -ss,...
... Could assimilate the name to marks, border. Is that attested? I was more concerned with first names, to be honest. I think the Greek form for Michael would...
Everytime I see a pic of the spearhead of Kovell, there's always some text mentioning that it's read right to left. Is it possible that the photo is just a...
... Markis) ... example ... is ... I would propose Kairls Marks (gen. Marksis). Since the final s is not a suffix it shouldn't change to Markis, and you're...
... That's a good question. The same I guess as should we use Fredrik or *Frižureiks :). We may consider the following: 1. Whether Vladimir is Germanic or...
I have a question about the Gothic word for "mother", "aithei". The general Indo-European pattern for "mother" is m + vowel +T + vowel +/-r, where T = [t],...
... voicless ... the ... Was ... I don't know if I can come up with a splended answer but I'll try ;) Aithei is not deriven from the same origine as german...
... use ... or ... Exactly! I use the name frithureiks when refering to friedrich engels, and a supposed gothicized form of his last name as Aggilisks. ... I...
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