[gothic-l] Re: Godheimar again

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Bertil,

as I pointed out in my previous message, to a Gothic "t" should 
correspond an Old Norse "t", since both languages preserved the Common 
Germanic "t". The Norse words containing d, ð, or Þ are rather 
cognated with Gothic guÞ "god". It seems to me that in your examples, 
there is a contamination between both Germanic roots, that would 
explain the God- instead of Got- in Godthjod. Maybe because the fact 
that the Goths became a mythical people in the Norse sagas, they were 
regarded as a sort of "Gods". Just speculations.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at y..., Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Keth,
> 
> The form -theud (people), was introduced for the
> Gothic name Gut-thiuda, which in Old Norse
> developed into Goththjod > Godthjod, the last
> being the form used in the epic lay, The Battle
> of the Goths and the Huns (Tolkien, _The Saga
> of King Heidrek the Wise_ (1960), pp. 49,50,
> 53).
> 
> Now there developed the new stem *God- (<Got-),
> from which the forms God-heimar/God-heimr and God-lond
> were derived. Snorra Edda preserved the original
> form Gotland as the epic name for Denmark. Edda 
> Smorra Sturlusonar, ed. F. Jonsson (1931), p. 135.
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil
> 



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