... and ... Hi, I don't think so, because the Goths in Spain didn't speak Gothic, but Latin or some vulgar Latin with a few Germanic/Gothic remnants. The ...
Hi Oscar, are the many question marks an expression of disbelief or a sign that you are unclear about the content of my comment? Just to clarify, there is...
Dear Oscar! Evidently we all have been victims for a great complot. We have been told there were Goths once upon a time but this evidently is only fantasies....
How long did it take Norse to die out among the Normans? Certainly less than a century (from 911 settlement to no later than the first quarter of the...
To answer one possible objection, the use of Latin for religious purposes may have sped the switch from Norse to French on the continent, but it didn't stop...
We might compare, as best we can, reconstructed linguistic frontiers from c. 300 with those from c. 800. The West Germanic languages did expand, Anglo-Frisian...
I'm not so sure; using the Normans as a template, we see that they were using Germanic names long after they had adopted French, English, and Italian. We also...
Hails, Does anyone know what the imperative of verbs like 'fraihnan' and 'frathjan' would have been? Verbix gives them as 'fraihn' and 'frathj', but I'm sure...
... You are right to be suspicious of Verbix. The imperatives of these two are 'fraihn' and 'frathei'. hvis mik fraihnis? fraihn žans hausjandans hva...
... Hi Oscar, can you be a bit more precise please. Which Roman legions were driven out of Spain by the Visigoths? The Visigoths were the Roman federate army....
... Hi Ingemar, I'm afraid the Goths that you tell about most of the time are indeed fantasy. Also the assumption that the Goths should have two sets of ... ...
... Hi Oscar, you have permission to call me Dirk or Mr Faltin or Dr Faltin ... but just faltin is a bit rude. I also don't address you as herrera. think about...
I'm not sure the Wenskus/Wolfram model really applies to the Goths. We can look at Heather's non-Wenskusian model of ethnogenesis, although I don't think...
... I see. Thanks for telling me. ... provincial Iberians largely submitted to the laws set by the secular Roman > authorities. The Catholic clerics submitted...
Hi, Another view is presented by Peter Brown in "The World of late antiquity AD 150-750" Dirk will probably not like it as it does not fit his picure. Tore The...
thank you for your imput mr faltin.....oscar ... Hi Oscar, you have permission to call me Dirk or Mr Faltin or Dr Faltin ... but just faltin is a bit rude. I...
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I have "argued" about this point with my friends several times.From my point of view, according to the number of words inherited from east germanic, it is very...
As long as the were Arian Christian the Gothic language was the reglious language as their bible was written in the Gothic language. The bible was translated...
Is it possible to draw any conclusions from Germanic place names about how long Gothic may have survived in Provence and Iberia? LN ... my point ... germanic,...
Actually, not so: while Ulfilas's work preceded Jerome's Vulgate Bible, that was by no means the first Latin Bible; there appear to have been at least 27...
... Hi Le, http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/gotol-TC.html http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/etc/aa_texts.html You might also need to track down some...
A lot would depend on the nature of the settlement; if the Visigoths settled in communities and farmed themselves, the language is more likely to have survived...
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