[gothic-l] first person n runes; Thiudaworda; etc

[Anthony Appleyard]

  Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at tninet.se> wrote:-
>  "I, Hlegestr from Holt, made this horn". Sych a statement, so Borkenau,
> contrasted sharply with the Greek and Latin expressions. A Roman crafstman
> would write for instance "Gn. Manlius faber hoc cornu fecit" (The craftsman 
> Gn. Manlius made this horn).

There are Germanic inscriptions where the author uses the 3rd person. e.g. I 
read about one (I think) "Boso rist runar" = "Boso carved the runes".

I read that the name "Scandinavia" comes from a Roman source and that the 
parrt {-avia} is the Common Germanic ror "island". Where else in Germanicdom 
does the name or word "skand-" occur, and with what meaning?

   "Tim O'Neill" <scatha at bigpond.com> wrote (Subject: '*Thiudawordaz' / 
'*Thiudaiworda'?(crosspost)):-
> My problem is the name.  At this stage the site is called  '*Thiudawordaz'
> which was my guess at Primitive Germanic for 'People Words'. ...

Or should it be {Theuda-}? Roman sources have {saltus tEUtoburgensis} and the 
name {thEOdoricus}, with E not I. But with {Theodoricus} for {theudari:kaz} or 
{thiudari:kaz} there is the risk that the name was subjected to "Ypres to 
Wipers" -style distortion to the familiar by Romans to Greek {theo-dor-ikos} = 
"related to a gift given by a god".

The name Ariovistus in "De Bello Gallico" has "o" not "a" as a link-vowel; can 
that be trusted as linguistics, or is it a distortion to Latin and Greek usage?

Some say that it would be strange if Tacitus knew more about Scandinavia than 
about Germany, although Germany was nearer. But long-distance travel was much 
easier by sea (e.g. into the Baltic) than by land. E.g. I read that in Roman 
times corn could be shipped the length of the Mediterranean for the same as it 
cost to cart it 50 miles inland.


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