[gothic-l] Pietroasa

[Bertil Häggman]

Francisc,

How old is Pietroasa in your opinion?

Will return to your comments on my Old Gutnish/
Gothic examples. Thank you very much !

Gothically

Bertil
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.




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