[gothic-l] Re: Beowulf and the Geats

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at N...> wrote:
>  It is said that Beowulf is a Anglo-Saxon poem, but since in the
> poem
> Beowulf is the son of the King of the Geats, is it possible that
> this was a copy of a much earlier Gothic poem.

That depends on what you define as Gothic language. When the Beowulf
story events were happening, all concerned were living in their pre-
migration homelands in Scandinavia and Denmark and would likeliest
have spoken Common Germanic rather than Alfred the Great's language
or Wulfila's language.







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