Greetings, I am so glad I found this site. I am in the process of writing a historical novel set during the reign of Constantina I. My goal is to make it as...
Hi Lothian, I am not a linguist but as far as I know they were reiks also when leading a war expedition. Their sacral king, however, was never allowed to leave...
To add to Ingemer's notes: 1. Reiks is the nominative singular; the final -s is extremely common for Gothic masculine nouns. Reik is the accusative singular. ...
I would like to know if Heiderik or Hildrik was King of the Vandals of the Goths? What time period did he live? Are these one and the same person? Le...
Thanks for helping. I will, on your explanations, drop the Draughtins from the book. I appreciate your help. I found a large lexicon of Gothic words, at ...
Sorry the of is supposed to be or. Le ... From: "Le Bateman" <LeBateman@...> To: <gothic-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:49 PM ...
... Streitberg's dictionary is good for reliable and detailed for definitions (and grammar) of attested words [ http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1910/ ]....
In the Gothic Bible, 'žiudans' is used of a king who goes to war: aižžau hvas žiudans gaggands stigqan wižra anžarana žiudan du wiganna, niu gasitands...
Hello again, Thanks for the site addresses. I have gone from clueless to over-clued in a week. I took a quick look at the sites and I think they will be very...
Can anyone suggest sources on the clothing of the Chernyakhov Culture? I know that various jewelry, brooches, etc. have been found as gravegoods, but not much...
Hails I“m male, 56 & write from Spain. I“m not an academic but rather interested in learning gothish for fun & practical reasons. At the moment, I“m still...
Hi, I cannot imagine which other characters the 'pagan goths' would have used, than the runes of the elder futhark, which was in use in Germania and...
I'm not very familiar with the research, but in my understanding, the Wulfilan Gothic alphabet begins with the Greek alphabet, and later picks up useful...
Hi Gerhard, The (pagan) Goths actually did use the elder Futhark: the are some short inscriptions left, for instance that on the necklace from the gold...
As well as the runic letter, Gothic 'o' resembles "a not uncommon variant of" the Greek letter Omega (Marchand 1973: The Sounds and Phonemes of Wulfilan...
Hi Francisc The runic inscriptiones on gothic weapeones, necklesses and gravestones only proofs that the goth tribes new the Runes as magickal "alphabet" but...
Hi, You are quite right. The old Futhark has only names and magical words. The full futhark is found in Stånga, Gotland as part of a grave end 4th century. ...
I wrote "short inscriptions", not "general texts". As I know, the old Futhark was used in general (not only by the Goths, but also by other Germanic peoples)...
Are there any programmes which I could access to run rune scripts on my PC? I would like to post some rune information on my sites for the runes and ogham...
... gravestones only ... but not that ... The scanty evidence that we have of the Gothic runes proves exactly the opposite: the Goths did use them for writing...
Hi Tore and Francisc Ek hlewagastir holtijar horna tawido written in the old futhark, is more than just a name, a magical inscription or a few words, almost a...
Does Gothic include a feminine noun-ending equivalent to the masculine -areis? I know that English -ess (often alternates with masc. -er) and -rix (*always*...
... Corresponding to the masculine -a, -ja (žarba, kasja), there's feminine -o, -jo (haižno, kalkjo). A feminine o-stem can correspond to a masculine a-stem...
... Old Norse has a term 'blaušr' "soft, weak; female (of animals); effeminate, cowardly", with the same root as the Gothic verb 'blaužjan'. It's used in a...
Well, is the Gothic translation a translation of (A) the ideal Greek text as reconstructed by modern scholars (B) the ideal Greek text as understood by Wulfila...
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