[gothic-l] Re: Gothic to Keth

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

> 
> >and dispersed beyond the original homeland
> >to occupy the region from the North Sea stretching to the
> >River Vistula in Poland by 500 BC. The languages spoken during this
> >period is only attested indirectly, in the foreign words, usually
> >proper names, used by Greek and Latin authors, and in early
> >loans in neighbouring and co-territorial languages, especially
> >Finno-Ugric and Baltic. The earliest direct records are
> >Scandinavian runic inscriptions from the beginning of the
> >third century."
> 
> In fact, the Illerup-Årdal runes found in Denmark, were
> determined to have come from S.Norway with an invading
> army. Date: ca. 200 AD. They attest the Nordic language.
> (PN's Vagnio and Svarta IIRC)


Hi Keth,

here is the link to a recent book on the origin of runes (the whole 
study is online!!). However, the author argues that the names Vanijo 
and Nithijo, etc. that were found on the Illerup weapons are infact 
the West Germanic names of the weapons smiths from the Rhine area who 
made these weapons in Norway. (The names are said to derive from the 
two tribes the Vangiones and Nitenses) 

http://www.ub.rug.nl/eldoc/dis/arts/j.h.looijenga/ 

If you have other information on this, we could discuss this on the 
Germanic list: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Germanic-L/messages

cheers,

Dirk



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