Dear Jen, Feel warm welcomed to the list. I am not a specialist in music but I know there are such people on the list. I hope to be able to contribute...
... the ... Germanic ... Hi Jen, I am not aware of finds of musical instruments asscociated with the Visigoths of Spain. Yet, it is of course possible to look...
After reading a request on Germanic-L to translate a sentence into Proto-Germanic, and considering our present state of knowledge on the language, I have...
Sorry if this post repeats - I am new to this site and it looks like my first post disappeared. Anyway, introduction: I am an engineering/management...
Hails! Ik im juggs guma af landa thatei Northwegs haitith. Min namo ist Thunorgáiru jah ik wait ni thos gutiskon razda waila, ak ik aih máis lisan! Hi! I'm a...
Hi I am new to the lisrt and I am trying to reconstruct the clothing of a gothic male (visigoth or ostrogoth} of the late 4th century. I want to make my...
Hi everybody, I am new to this site. I have been interested in the late Roman Empire for more than half my life and have a particular interest in the Goths. I...
Hails! For military terms in Germanic, see "Language and History in the Germanic World" I don't recall all the specifics from this book, but it is a really ...
Hails! Grave finds are very few, and clothing almost never is preserved, unless a piece of it be covered by a brooch or something. Even the fairly well...
... based ... Hi, I hope the link below works. It shows a very accurately 'reconstructed' Germanic warrior of the 5th century. This example is meant to be a...
... of ... be ... are ... [wages]). Anno is of course the derivation from latin 'annona', which was part of the payment for Roman soldiers. As such it is a...
... I ... the ... Hi, perhaps one last thought. German Werwolf, English werewolf has nothing to do with earlier mentioned connotations of 'vargr - thief' or...
Hails Dirk- Thanks for the notes and clarifications. ... Sorry I did not clarify this part enough. I was relating an argument I read. I think the author of the...
... element, ... argument I ... was ... have ... thence ... that ... for ... Hi Matthew, no need to provide the reference for this argument. Your message above...
Hi, Concerning Herzog the Swedish equivalent is 'hertig' if that is of any use.Birger jarl, whose title was jarl, i.e.earl, counted himself as dux in the 13th...
... any ... dux ... Thanks Ingemar, so I understand that the title of Herzog/Hertig, as Dux was used in Sweden as well. Unless this Swedish nobleman borrowed...
In a message dated 4/29/2003 11:38:13 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Greetings Jarajan, I'm pretty new to this list myself. I'm in the SCA and I am myself...
Thanks all for your contributions. Summarising what has been said, I now have the following terms for the Gothic leaders and units in the game: Fritigern...
Hails! Weren't alien warleaders called heretoga in Old English? I believe they called viking warlords heretoga (but I'm not sure). It would make sense, as they...
I think you'll find that 'hertig' was one of the many loanwords borrowed from Low German into Scandinavian during the time of the Hanseatic League, and that...
I have to retract part of what I said about 'hertig/Herzog'.Waterman (p.37) lists 'Herzog' as a "purely Germanic term" for one of the institutions of the early...
... Hi! The title goes back a long way. In the Roman state calendar from about 400 AD there were 25 such titleholders. In Sweden Magnus Ladulås was the first...
... of ... himself as ... from ... Anglo- ... titleholders. ... But Magnus Ladulaas lived in the 13th century, and it seems possible - as suggested by others -...
List members may be interested to know that the following book on Goths has become available. The summary is from the publisher's web- site: Christensen, Arne...
Hi everybody-hej alla! This message I received from a friend hose computer was infected. I found it also in mine but has deleted it according to the...
Do not delete that file! it is a harmless windows file, but if you did, no problem unless you use visual java. Ingemar Nordgren <ingemar@...> wrote:Hi...