[gothic-l] Re: Godheimar again

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Bertil,

I hope that you did not missundertand me. When I referred to a 
contamination between "God" and "Got", I did not mean that this 
contamination is due to you or to Prof. Pritsak. I meant that this 
contamination (or popular etymology) occured in the language of the 
authors/propagators of the Old Norse sagas, that (in my view) 
reinterpreted Got-thjod "Gothic people" as God-thjod "people of gods" 
or "God's people".

Francisc


--- In gothic-l at y..., Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Francisc,
> 
> May well be but I am but I am just
> using the examples of Professor Omeljan
> Pritsak.
> 
> It seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil
> 
> 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.


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