... take ... (http://www.koeblergerhard.de/germanistischewoerterbuecher/gotischesw o ... (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php), ... with ... _kyn_, ... to ... ...
I am still researching the Tyringi - Tervingi problem a bit. The name derivation is still problematic. However, I found that the town of Tyrna (Slovakia),...
Venantius Fortunatus mentioned a Thuringian king Bessinus and a queen Basina, who would have ruled around 460 AD. The name Bessinus, also rendered as Bisinus...
Hi Dirk, I may easily error in my retort below, yet it appears to me that some purely phonetic problems remain so far in the picture suggested by you. ... name...
... queen ... often ... Visendus ... Bessinus ... names ... It was early Byzantine Greek where the B/V confusion took its origin. To the time, Greek B (beta)...
How well-dated are the relevant sound-shifts within West-Germanic languages? And do they generally affect place-names within Thuringia (however bounded)? Has...
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*************************<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Hi Dirk! I can add to Tyrna and Trnava also Veliko...
... could ... followed ... theta. ... Germanic ... fancy ... out), ... Hi Ualarauans, thanks for your expert assessments. You are probably aware that your...
Hi Dirk and others, ... Germanic ... later. ... fancy ... out), ... (near ... Did someone try to link this name with Gothic *Tairwiggos? It really seems a...
... corresponds ... really ... well. ... suggestion ... some ... Hi Ualarauans, I don't think that the Zähringer dynasty or the town and region of Zehringen...
... = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> ... last item is interesting from two points of view. ... was either a hard counterpart of _i_ or its...
... also ... he ... the ... name ... derived ... vohu ... Hi Oualaravans, many thanks for that. I think I would agree that the name Bessinus/Bisin and Basina...
Hi Dirk, ... really ... it ... well. ... suggestion ... Thuringia ... Well, strictly spoken, if we drag Gothic *Tairwigggos through all the historic changes in...
... Hi Ualarauans, many thanks for this interesting analysis. The onomastics professor J. Udolph wrote that the question whether the name Thuringia had...
I saw an interesting programme recently, featuring a Duchess of Medina- Sidonia. The programme was about her ancestor who commanded the Spanish armada in 1588....
Hi Dirk, ... Medina- ... dukes ... It's a long time since I heard the idea of Guzman derived from Gothic 'goths manna' "good man", a self-title associated...
The family tradition is probably correct. Several years ago I did fair amount of research on the whole topic of the Visigoths in Spain and the Muslim conquest....
... Hi Patrick, no it isn't, apprently. The point was that the family tradition was made up to create a false ancestry in order to connect the Guzmans to the...
They probably weren't Arians in the strict sense. There were several 'like' groups and two main 'unlike' groups, Arians and Aetians, and the known Gothic...
Michael Erwin
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some and perhaps some of your findings are true, however ive done some research while in spain and most of the visigoths withdrew to the north and formulated...
I made this remark based on my own experience in law practice with clients who had so called family traditions of background and my own family. There are ...
... We have lithuanian word 'marios' - The see/ or the baltic sea sailed by Goths My question is - could 'marios' be connected with the name Gundomaris....
It's worth recalling that the actual numbers of Berbers and Arabs who migrated into Spain in the centuries after 711 was very, very small (I've seen the...
Actually, the Arian creed saw Jesus as a human and a Prophet, born of the Virgin Mary and ascended into heaven after the resurection rather than as a part of...
... ni ibna nih galeiks unsarai garaihtein, ak silba garaihtei wisands ... - the Skeireins Also Philostorgius, Book IV, Chapters 11-12, discusses these issues....
Michael Erwin
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Oct 20, 2006 9:36 am
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Hi Tom! ... of the ... than as ... I totally agree with you about the Arian original thinking. This is in the time of Arius and soon afterwards, but still this...
... some research while in spain and most of the visigoths withdrew to the north and formulated their defenses there and thus after started their wars against...
... born ... identical ... like ... is in ... explained ... implication ... divined ... Arian ... The ... from ... lakeys ... in ... many ... Hi Ingemar, you...
... Just read Dietrich Claude and you will see that there was an agreement between the Visigothic king and the Jews that they should be allowed to have a...
I think the Arian and Aetian texts describe Jesus, to use modern terminology, as a theophany, as the manifestation of God as a human being, loosely comparable...