[gothic-l] Re: ØVRE STABU runes - from 2nd century.

[Francisc Czobor]

Hails allaim!

--- In gothic-l at y..., keth at o... wrote:
> ...
> I will finish by adding another Looijnga quote.
> On page 79 she writes:
> "Runic knowledge among the Goths, if there was any
> was most likely tied to Scandinavia, because the Goths
> originated from there, and because there were continuous
> contacts between Denmark and the Black Sea region in
> which the Goths had settled."
> 

I feel I'm becoming angry. Who is this Looijnga, who seems that never 
heard about the East Germanic runic inscriptionS, one of them at least 
being Gothic for sure, namely the longest one, that was found in my 
country, at Pietroasa. The necklace where this inscription was carved 
belongs to the gold treasure of Pietroasa, that is attributed by most 
researchers to the Visigothic leader Athanaric. The inscription is in 
old Futhark and was differently interpreted by different authors, the 
most common being GUTANI WIHAILAG = "of the Goths sacred-holy 
[property]" (I already wrote several time about this to the Gothic-L).
And note also that some of the Gothic letter names are similar to the 
rune names and that some letters of Wulfila's alphabet (o, u, Þ) are 
borrowed from the runic script, facts that strongly suggest that the 
Goths used the runes before the alphabet of Wulfila.

Francisc

GUTANI WIHAILAG!!!


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