Hello all, Happy New Year and sorry for my absence. I'd like to express my thankfulness to you all, I've read all your emails really carefully. Instructive and...
You might as well stay. D: There are too few sources for the Gothic language compared to some others, and I think talking with other learners is your best bet...
Hi Pablo, I agree with Johann. Of course you should stay. We are many not linguists here and I feel as ignorant as you when those experts start discussing. The...
Recently(2006) a royal tomb (assigned to Gepids: Polus tumulus near Cluj-Napoca)was unveiled; the "celtic cross" was found on the royal seal and on vessels. ...
Greetings all, I am a lurker on this list who has been a member for almost 10 years now. I have occasionaly posted, and wanted to say "hello", and that I enjoy...
Csaba (son of Attila) is also very popular because of the heroic argument. Remember that the Kings of Hungary and the Voyevods of Transylvania and of The...
A user, unfortunately anonymous, gave the following very interesting interpretation on the two Suns on the representation of apotheosis (on the Louvre stella)...
Hails doesn't anybody knows if "SUN" is a female word in all gemanic languages? Moon and Sun were both Goddess in the pre-christian times.? Sauil,is a word...
Since we have all knowledge mostly from Wulfila, with a Greek background, it is not quite sure that it was indeed not feminine among the people. That is all I...
As a linguist, I dare suggest that grammatical gender has little to do with meaning. Mark Twain famously points out that German speakers must refer to a girl...
To my understanding the Sun(Sunna) is feminine and the Moon(Muni) is masculine. This relationship lends itself to the old saying that a successful man is...
There are two words for "sun" attested in Gothic, both ultimately derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root. (1) 'sauil' (Mk 1:32, Mk 13:24), both times...
There is a very intersting a link: http://www.asatru.es/paginas/Quintanilla%20basilica.htm This is a religous construction made by visigohts in Spain, late in...
Hi Ernesto, Funny you should post this connection. Two months ago I visited Spain and made some research with aid of among else an female archaeology professor...
Hi again, Ernesto, I have tried to add some photos but on this list nothing seems to work - not with photos and specially not files. Those pics - peacocks and ...
Dear Thiudans! Why have you disabled the possibility to upload files to Gothic list? As shown in Germanic list this possibility is extremely valuable and often...
One explanation of why the sun is feminine in the Germanic tongues is that for the north Europeans the sun is a gentle, nurturing thing. However, it might be...
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... that ... Gerry, That is a great point. Another is that the goddess in general may have evolved out of the Dawn Goddess like Ushas and Eostre. Of course...
Hello friends Last year we made a wide archeological survey in neighborhood of Mangup and Eski-kermen (South-Western Crimea) as a part of RGZM project and...
Dear Authari, It is indeed an interesting question you put. I have looked in Hellquist Etymological Dictionary and the word 'schul' is included as middle low...
Dear Authari, I should of course have concluded with suggestion for Shulanda. I beleive it means simply 'The refuge, shelter or hut-cabin within a fenced...
... I have been delving for a while on my suggestion below and must add that it simply could be a term used of a fortification, a fortress or a fortified...
Dear Ingemar Thank you for information. Just some notices. Your etimolomology fits situation very well. Shulanda is on a plateau near mountain pass through...
Hi Authari! I am glad you could use my suggestion. Thank you for your very thorough report about the last results in the Crimea! My very best wishes! Ingemar...
Greetings All, I am currently studying Gothic tribalism, and would like input on the most quality works to purchase. Ingemar's book, The Well Spring.., holds a...
i dont read french...ik niu siggwith fragka..... ... From: Georges Depeyrot <georges.depeyrot@...> Subject: [gothic-l] Moneta (Wetteren) new publications...
Hails, R.Elliot in his book _Runes, An Introduction_, pg34 refers to a "Salzburg codex 140, now codex 795" of the Austrian national Library in Wien, a...
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