Hi Lucia, Interesting. Have you read this article or do you know what Durante's opinion was about the phrase? E.g. whether DU USFILHAN is passive, and...
Hi all! According to what I have heard, there excisted different flags even 2000 years ago. These should have been used by trading people on their ships on the...
-Hej Fredrik, I never heard of flags in connection with the Goths. Regnum Tolosanum must as far as I understand be able to translate with the Toulose realm or...
Is there a book or website on Gothic Naming elements? Would they be similar to Anglo-Saxon naming elements? Ælfgar, Ælfhere, Ælfheah, Ælfric, Ælfred. ...
Perhaps the person meant Battle Standards. The Saxons were said to have used one, a Black flag with a white dragon on it. I wonder if that symbol was...
... I've just put up a naming elements page. http://www.geocities.com/nualle/gmc_naming_elements.html By way of disclaimer... I'm not a trained linguist, nor...
Gothic naming elements, compared with their Old English equivalents, are given in: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/2385/gothnames.html Francisc ... be...
Le, As ever, Gerhard Koebler's "Gotisches Woerterbuch" is worth a look. It has a large appendix devoted Gothic names, cross-referenced where possible with...
In Krause & Helm, ON *bnu'a is printed thus as hypothetical. I'm afraid I don't know anything else about how du & dis- might have come about. ... Zoega, ... to...
The Raven Standard (hrafnsmerki) was an emblem of the Danes in their wars against the Saxons: http://www.northvegr.org/forum_archive/074.php ... to have ... ...
Hi Fredrik, There is a single word in Gothic letters on a stone (not a tombstone) found at the Benedictine convent of Brunshausen. A Latin inscription...
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.htm Bit of a tangent, but there's lots of useful information here on ON female names, with plenty that's relevant...
... to have ... Hi Le, I have never heard of such a flag or standard being used by the Saxons (neither Old Saxons nor Anglo-Saxons). A red dragon is of course...
... Hi Llama Nom, is there any explanation why somebody in the early 9th century in middle/northern Germany would carve an inscription in Gothic, using the...
Hi, Llama! Sorry for my late reply! Durante considers DU USFILHAN as active and ANA refers to GASTIM, with a prepositional funtion. According to him Wulfila...
Hi Dirk, I don't know. I only have more questions! Like: was the Latin inscription made at the same time as the Gothic one, by the same person, or later?...
... maybe ... + ... anyone ... time ... and ... in ... Hi, I have never heard of such a decree. To be honest, I strongly doubt that the Visigoths in Spain...
Hi Lucia, No problem! That's very helpful. This is different from Gerry's idea that ANA is adverbial. I wonder... Does Durante have any parallels for this...
... the ... I recently noticed that the dynastic names Skilfinga & Skjöldungar, normally applied to the Swedish and Danish rulers respectively, are both also...
... Hi Llama Nom, We know for certain that there were blood ties between Ostrogoths and Thuringians. Whether this Amaling dynasty in Thuringia just borrowed a...
Hi all, A few years ago I have written an MA thesis on Gothic prepositions, and here's what I've been able to come up with on "usfilhan ana gastim". To my...
Hi Sigi, And thanks for your suggestions! ... At 2Cor 11,25 eliqasqhn = stainiths was "I was stoned". Another alternative, with a nominal compliment, but no...
... examples? ... is ... Do ... who ... other ... Hi Sigi and Llama Nom, Sigi's examples for the use of this Gothic preposition 'ana' seem very plausible to a...
Hi Fredrik, Well done! Here's a few random thoughts to be going on with. According to Koebler, Gk. kurios always = Go. frauja. The word _guth_ appears as if...
Hi Dirk, Yeah, that's just the trouble: they're both quite convincing! Also ON á Englandi. Of course, the field itself isn't being moved to a foreign land,...
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