[gothic-l] Re: Anagastes?

[MCLSSAA2 at FS2.MT.UMIST.AC.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Brian Beck" <babeck at a...> wrote:
> But the 'ana-' puzzles me. Could it be a typo (what did they call
> typos before typewriters?) for 'Ansa-' - 'god' or 'Anda-' -
> 'spirit', which are common elements in Germanic names?

Another consonant omission that was likely a typo rather than of
linguistic significance is in Anglo-Saxon verse in runes on the
Franks
whalebone casket: {hos her sitaeth on harmbergae} = "here the horse
sits on the harmful mound", where {hos} clearly means "horse" because
the accompanying carved picture shows a horse standing by [its usual
rider's?] grave-mound.


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