[gothic-l] The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names

[Le Bateman]

Since many of the Germanic surnames are patramynic would it be plausible to
say that Erminus would have been called Ermanius Segestesen.
Le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim O'Neill" <scatha at bigpond.com>
To: <gothic-l at egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:29 PM
Subject: [gothic-l] The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names


Hails,

I am currently working on an on-line project to produce a screenplay
of the story of Publius Quinctilius Varus and the Battle of the
Teutoburgerwald.  I don't imagine it will ever be made into a
film,
but the idea is to try to produce a script which is as historically
accurate and detailed as possible while still being an interesting
and exciting story.

Of course, I will be trying for a very accurate depiction of the
Germanic peoples in the story and this includes their names and some
of their language.  I was hoping folks here might be able to help me
with this aspect of the project.  At the moment I am
using `*Airmanameros' as the hypothetical West Germanic form
of `Arminius'.  Or should it be `*Armanameros'?
I'm also not certain
about the `-mer(os)' ending, but his father Segimerus had
that ending
on his name and it seemed a reasonable supposition.  Any comments,
suggestions or alternatives gratefully accepted.  Any recommended on-
line or `dead tree' material on what first century West
Germanic
dialects would have been like would be even more gratefully accepted.

Here are a few more names of characters from the story, with some
attempts at reconstructing their W. Gmc. Forms:

`Segestes' - *Sigigastos - Arminius' father-in-law
`Segimerus' - *Sigimeros - Arminius' father
`Thusnelda' - *Thursnelda - Arminius' wife
`Inguiomerus' - *Ingameros - Segimerus' brother,
Arminius' uncle

You can find the home site of the project, `Clades Variana, with
some
background material, a discussion forum, reader's polls and the
screenplay so far (all very much under construction) here:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/2385/varus.html

Cheers,

Tim O'Neill
Tasmanian Devil



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