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
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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
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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,...
niu was bulgara rodidandam gutiska ainaha taihunda jeram thau swe.....wasnt bulgaria speaking gothic like a hundred years ago or so...oscar ... Thanks. I'm...
Michael, It is my research library and not possible to download. However I can make pdf of the docs you are interested in. Please let me know. Tore ... ...
... swe.....wasnt bulgaria speaking gothic like a hundred years ago or so...oscar ... Not a hundred (100) years ago, but (approx.) a thousand (1000). Francisc...
Okay, thanks. None of them quite seem to cover what I'm looking for. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Michael Erwin
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Jan 18, 2007 3:05 am
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I am completing Nehemiah. I was going to send 1-7 but overlooked that I didn't yet complete 3-6 satisfactorily. My main resource is the LXX. Here is the first...
Conrad, in "Archaeological Survey on the Lower Danube: Results and Perspectives," claims that: "A profound crisis was caused by the Gothic wars in the second...
Michael Erwin
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Jan 18, 2007 5:34 am
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What does the (dash with the right end bent down followed by a comma) mean? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hails! A few words about myself... I have studied a number of languages, mostly Indo-European, and particularly more ancient ones (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit...),...
Hails allum, My name is Leonardo and I study archaeology here in Stockholm. I'm currently writing a paper on the connections between the Visigoths in Spain and...
... <frithunanthz@...> wrote: I bought myself for christmas the spectacular book "The Well Spring ... Ingemar ... extensive and ... I thank thee indeed my...
Try this: http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1920/ You can download there the text of Streitberg's grammar, except for the chapters on syntax. Best, Denis ...
Also, there are scanned images of Wright's here: <http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html> And David Salo's intro to Gothic here: ...
Okay, this isn't a new book, but I'm in a critical mood now... Language and History in the Early Germanic World. By D.H. GREEN. Cambridge University Press,...
... I think Green's book covers a lot of interesting things, but I'm not always convinced he's on very sure ground when he moves away from what seems to be his...