... 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...
Ahmet is right - this IS a hoax! And this is not the first time it appears. Fortunately, jdbgmgr.exe, although a MS-Windows system file, is not indispensable...
I have had a first quick read-through of the new book by Arne Soby Christensen „Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Goths", Museum Tusculum Press,...
Hails, Does anyone know, or have any idea, of what Goths may have called the Arian and Orthodox churches? Besides "Us" and "Them", I mean. Surely the Gothic...
... Ravi: I posted the above on the Jathistory list, here is a response I got: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JatHistory/message/598 Ravi Sunny Singh writes: ...
... Response from Sunny Singh to a query as to importance> *********** I believe the Goths, a Germanic people, were partly formed from the same ancestors of...
... Scandinavia. Quite the opposite, Sunny Singh needs to read the book first, before commenting. ... period ... Firstly, it does not disregard the works of...
... Soby ... response ... argues ... classical ... at ... people ... Goths ... simply ... The Getae have nothing to do with the Goths. In reality even ...
Dear Ravi, I write now because the early history of my country, Romania, is involved here. So, the Getae are for sure different from the Goths. The Getae were...
Dirk and Francsic Thank you both for the insight. I am going to post both your responses on the Jathistory list, and copy Sunny Singh, and ask him to give his...