Hi! I guess everyone here have some intentions and reasons why you wanna learn gothic. One could be a general interest in languages and specially in gothic,...
i agree with all that you said.....a national revival is needed...weis skuld alla distaida gutrazda.....ulfila gaf unsara tho mahtiega du anastodja gutrazda...
Hi Tore, Goth’s heritage. I have been pondering the answer I got from you 06 02 05. In that message you refer to the same book as you referred to in an...
... Hello all, in the context of this discussion I would like to draw your attention to a short paper by Frederik Kortlandt (University of Leiden) on the ...
Hi Otto, I have another interesting book about the Gotlanders cultural and commercial involvement in the southern Baltic shores during the centuries BC. ...
Hi Wilhelm and Tore. ... the least. Most scientists acknowledge that they don't know from where the Goths came. What we know is that that they surface in...
Names can stick around after peoples move on (or those left behind transform into something else). Just looking at the peoples of the Volkerwanderung, we also...
Hi Tom and all. ... Sure. The problem, however, is that not everyone moves on. Some stay behind. Gotland, for instance, has been continuously populated, and ...
In the March 2006 edition of National Geographic there is an article on the Celts, their history and culture. It includes a map showing where Celtic people...
Hear, hear! At last a sensible voice. Thank you Konrad.As you know I have already stated since long both gutar, gautar and possibly ýtar (Eutoz) and many...
Actually, Galician (or Gallego as it is called) is a Romance language closely related to Portuguese (it's sometimes considered a dialect of Portuguese) and is...
I have an ambition to work out some basic things about Gothic word order, which isn't so easy, because Gothic Bible is in most ways a word for word translation...
... reconstructed Gothic. I think it would be good to establish all that can be established about the historical language, otherwise any reconstruction would...
language is language.....i mean english is probably spoiken different today than say 1000 yrs ago.../.we can only go word for word...meaning sometimes a...
... extinct (fewer than 100 speakers left), and it has proven difficult as well to obtain reliable and detailed research on the topic. The most recent book,...
... I think we're safe with *aihvs, but "green" could be either a ja- stem (*groneis) or an i-stem (grons). The etymological dictionaries I've seen tend to...
I think you're right when you say it is important to recunstruct those words which probably existed but ain't attested, before creating words for things that...
Hi I have posted some pics from alano-gothic catacomb cemetry Alonia (near Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine) in my LJ (on Friday, March 10th, 2006). The language of my...
Privit Tovaraisch(sp) Serge.. I do not think they are offtopic.. Sadly my Russian (cyrillic) is limited, but will see.. I am or was a member of the SCA...
If anyone is game, I have some small simple poems that might be easy to translate into Gothic? Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
what are they....oscar Michael Adams <abrigon@...> wrote: If anyone is game, I have some small simple poems that might be easy to translate into Gothic? ...
I am learning to ask first, so I do not waste peoples bandwidth to much.. Here goes: (two or more) BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE: Oh sweet butterfly, so like the wind...
my version for butterflies are free---- ah wulthein malo, swaswe tho windo ju reidan,fahana ju kunn ju ist,auk in sah allata ik tawei slaha ist ju jah haldan...
Hails, *Garazdans! Would you mind another translation attempt? Not always a word-for-word one, of cause, but instead I tried to “reconstruct” here and...
... Hails! Nice translation & alliteration! No grammar comments now. I like flower-fly, nice invention. The first line has many syllables so I will offer a...
Could someone help me? I have two questions, problems... 1/I search for the meaning, or ethymology of the names of Jormunrek's sons, especially Erpr. Any...
Golja Thuk, Thiudan! Thanks for your reply. *Fifald(r)o is great! Talking about this, is the first syllable a reduplication? If so, the spelling should be...