[gothic-l] Gaut, Gapt

[Tore Gannholm]

>
>To paraphrase this long passage shortly in English, Reichert points    out
>that it is quite  usual for Latin writers in the sixth century to    write
>apt
>for spoken aut, following in this learned Greek tradition    (and not Greek
>manuscripts). He sees a bigger problem in the    spoken au, but remains
>undecided why this was not transposed to    long o, as it should have
>been in Gothic, because there is not    enough evidence for a convincing
>scientific explanation. Reichert    firmly points to Cassiodorus as the
>source for Jordanes (so did, by    the way, already Mommsen in the
>critical edition of the MGH), and    both point out the connection
>between the genealogy given in    Jordanes Getica, XIV 79, and
>Cassiodor, Variae 9, 25 and 11,1, a    connection known to everyone who
>ever worked seriously with the    texts of Jordanes and of Cassiodorus.
>So I think you can stop this    futile search for non-existant Greek sources
>of Jordanes for the    Amal genealogy. Jordanes  took it over from
>Cassiodorus and    Cassiodorus from oral tradition, as Jordanes
>expressedly states    Get.79: Horum ergo heroum, ut ipsi suis in fabulis
>referunt, primus    fuit Gapt, qui genuit Hulmul.
>
>Kind regards
>
>         Andreas Schwarcz

Thanks Andreas,
Genealogy of dynasties is not history. When somebody like Theoderik becomes
a great ruler he needs a geneology. Therefore Cassiodorus and others had to
put together a geneology that suited Theoderik. This is very common.
Tore


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