Greetings, This has become a very confusing thread. Oscar wrote: <I know its of gothic origins, manie. i see alot of names in spain of <gothic origins.i go...
Bonjour les amis, Voilà: Castelldefels est une ville située au sud de Barcelone. "Castell de fels" veut dire "Château de fidèles": pendant une longue...
Cher Miquel, Bonjour! Je ne sais pas si vous avez compris moin anglais. J'ai corrige un ami qui a penses que Castelldefells tait un mot gothique. Il n'est pas....
Miquel, Please never feel embarrassed about your English, from what I read it is fine. Cheers, Fernando Eladio Jiménez Díaz IV ... [Non-text portions of this...
Dear Fernando, I'm affraid that I'm not the authority to elucidate this issue; I have to remind that I'm only an amateur in linguistics. From my point of view,...
Dear Francisc, Please also see my next post regarding "Gothic" names. Francisc, I think many of us have forgotten that you "modestly" consider yourself an...
Dear Francisc, Thank you for your response and the information concerning my Gothic name "Frithunanths". Indeed, for some time I have known that my first name...
... Hi Frithunanths, I have read it and find it quite interesting. I give you a very short summary of his general wiews, that I share in the great lines but of...
Francisc,
Thank you kindly for your explanation.
I tried your link to Koebler's dictionary but I could not get it to
work. Nonetheless, I was able to find an...
Correction: Diacritical marks in my previous post #7870 did not display correctly towards the end of the post. It is meant to read: The latter example may...
Hi, Fernando, you didn't succeed to get the link to Koebler's Annex 3 (Gothic Names) probably because you tried to click on the link in my message. But,...
Thank you Ingemar and Tore for the synopsis and recommendations. I believe the bookstore at Upsala Universitet is having a (50% off) book sale at the moment. ...
Dear Friends, I am trying to find reputable (recent) papers, books, authors as concerns possible - NON Indo-European - substrates in the Germanic languages. I...
... Dear Frithunanths, ... Please forget those ideas. Vanir and Asir are gods and the Vanir comparable with Nâsatyas, or Açvins, in the Iranian religion as...
Dear Fernando, It seems that Ingemar's explanation of Aesir/Vanir is plausible, although I also have read that the Vanir could be originally the chthonian /...
... F,E.J.D IV, if you want to address my by my surname only then it is a matter of minimum courtesy to write Mr. Faltin or Dr. Faltin. Your address is an...
Dear Fernando, Some words common to Celtic & Germanic, which according to "The Celtic Realms" (Myles Dylon & Nora Chadwick, 1967), "may belong to some northern...
Hi Ingemar, Appologies for the delay! This link should take you to an expanded version of my notes & speculations on reconstructing the Gothic calendar: ...
Dr. Dirk et al., As the originator of the now discarded "booted out" of Spain I feel the need to confess guilt to the accusation of ignorance of the Visigothic...
Dear Llama Nom and Fernando, I loved that whole Clan of the Cave Bear series. I read three or four of them. They were about the old conflict between the...
Hails Members, One of my daughter's friends just asked me a frequently asked question. How do the Goths that I study relate to the Goths in their school? Is...
all of this booting out of the goths sounds like they were a weakling nation.they were a migratatory nation and thus were the most populated germanic group at...
Dear Jim, The freedom of thought that allowed the manifestation of such great minds like Averoes happened not in Visigothic Spain, but in the Moorish Spain...
... philosopher of Berber descent. Now I wonder if the decentralized nature of Visgothic Spain may have led to the freedom of thought and science expressed in...
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