Hails, Ualarauans! Sorry for answering this so late! I've been terribly busy lately. Thank you for your list of reconstructed names for the Visigothic Kings,...
Hails, Ik im ussiggwands Patrick Amory, "People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554." Jah meljandaries qitham ei Wulfila skapjau ain razda "far removed...
Michael Erwin
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Dec 3, 2006 7:40 am
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... Hails Michael! Here's my guess at one way to express this in Gothic (no doubt there are other possibilities, equally convincing if not more so): Ik ...
... choice was based in the similarity with Norwegian "fagraste". Using skįuns* would yield skįunosts as superlative, if I'm right. Hi Rydwlf, I think the...
Hails Rydwlf, ... ahvįi. ... Magnhild would ... I don't know what the name means in Norwegian, so I'm only guessing. If it's ville "will" + mann "man", then...
... Hails, Walhahrabn! ... The two possibilities are: 'wiljan' (or some other verb of wishing/commanding/needing, etc.) + 'ei' + subjunctive, or 'wiljan' + ...
... Ostrogothic ... razda ... 239). ... wisai. ... there ... Hailai! I was wondering if ussiggwan means more specifically "to read aloud", "to recite" whereas...
Hails Llama, Thank you for pointing that. I think you are right. So I will leave it as "skįunists" then. I even prefer it for rhytmhic reasons :) Thanks...
Hails Ualarauans, Thank you for your comments and corrections! It's a nice way to learn this one :) ... Unfortunately, I don't know either what the name means...
Hi Rydwlf and Ualarauans, Maybe I complicate it for you but there is still another meaning of 'vill'. It can as well mean to 'get lost'in e.g. the wood, 'lose...
Hails, Walhahrabn! Thanks for your detailed examination of the examples. It's something I've wondered about before, ever since reading the comments on this ...
Hi Ingemar, This meaning is found in Old Norse too; it's another sense of the adjective cognate with English 'wild' (cf. 'bewildered'), Go. 'wilžeis'. LN ... ...
Hails Ingemar, The proposal you make of a third possible meaning for Villeman makes it even more interesting :) It would be nice if we could find a Gothic...
... God jul, indeed. Merry Christmas. //Johan Jönsson -- http://mansken.blogspot.com...
Johan Jönsson
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Dec 24, 2006 12:05 am
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I can't find half-decent descriptions of many forts or their stratigraphy. I thought I'd ask around here. Obvious candidates include Durostorum and Novae. ...
Michael Erwin
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Dec 27, 2006 5:45 am
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A Happy New Year, Gott Nytt År, Gutes Neujahr to all listmembers! Ingemar...
Hi all, over the Christmas holidays I had the chance to read two quite recent books on the Goths, which I think are 'must-reads' for anybody interested in the...
Hi Dear Dirk, I did indeed, in opposite to you, appreciate Tore's initiative. It is a good and convincing article and it is not alone. There are several good...
Amory is an excellent resource; his arguments about the fuzziness of 'Gothicness' are convincing, though his arguments about the Gothic language were not for...
Thanks. If we compare the transliterated Gothic text to the Vulgate text (starting in the middle of 1 Tim 1:9): attans bliggwandam - patricidis aitheins...
Michael Erwin
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Jan 11, 2007 2:02 am
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Hi Michael, I could be mistaken, but I think there's one less term in the Gothic compared to the Latin and Greek, isn't there? That seems to be the assumption...
Hails, I'm a graduate student in linguistics, having just learned Gothic from the linguistic point of view and trying to assemble the whole picture of ...
- Ammianus doesn't try to estimate the migration's size; Eunapius estimates 200,000; I don't know the context and don't know whether this is the negotiated...
Michael Erwin
merwin@...
Jan 16, 2007 8:13 pm
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Hi! The following link could also be of interest http://www.stavgard.com/romaniron/goterna_/default.htm Tore ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Thanks. I'm having some trouble with the page format; it's not really compatible with my current browser, or either of my operating systems. I can't save...
Michael Erwin
merwin@...
Jan 16, 2007 10:44 pm
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Maybe you all already know this one: "Des les goths aux huns: Le nord de la mer noire au Bas empire et a lepoque des grandes migration" by Mark čukin,...
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