[gothic-l] Lukman

[Bertil Häggman]

Frank,

Many have doubts concerning Lukman.
Is there an English edition? Have only seen
an edition in German language. Lukman
developed the theory that the Skjoldungar-
Skilfingar cycle, known from Beowulf, Saxo
and some later Icelandic sagas, was originally
brought to Gautland/Goetaland by the Erules.

There is also the theory that the famous poem
on the "Battle of the Goths and the Huns" was created
on the basis of Gautish material transmitted by the
Erules.

Gothically

Bertil


> Niels Lukman was the first scholar I read (though not the first to write, I
> don't think) who related the Scyldingas of Beowulf to the Heruls basically
> in the territory of Dacia--Dacians becoming confused with Danes, and
> resulting in the "importation" of these Heruli into Danish legend.



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