[gothic-l] Godheimar

[Bertil Häggman]

Esteemed listmembers,

The Goths never had a connection
to German Federal territory.

Besides Harvard Professor Omeljan
Pritsak's _Origin of the Rus_ is unrelated
to German placenames, which would
anyway, due to territoriality, have
nothing to do with the Goths.

A recent exhibition catalogue from
Germany is a good illustration of this.
Of the finds presented from Germany
none could be attributed to the Goths
in difference to East European exhibits.

So I don't see the relevance of bringing up
German placenames in the relation to
Godheimar.

Gothically

Bertil

> One has to be very carefull with these kind of attributions. In
> Germany there are place names like Gotinga, Gutinge, first attested in
> 775AD and now called Goettingen, or Godewicum/Goduwicus now called
> Goettwig (Austria), or Gotenheim (!), or Gottorpia now called Gottorp,
> or Goteaugla now called Gottesau, or Gotaha/Gota (8th century) now
> calld Gotha, etc..... All these places have nothing to do with the
> Goths, and there obviously was a common placename component of
> Got-/Gut-/God-/Gud-, which should also be considered in finding
> explanations for such placenames.



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