[gothic-l] Lay of Theodoric the Goth

[Anþanareiks]

Lay of Theodrick the Goth

 

    A fragment on an ancient Runic stone (early tenth century ?), 
known as the. Rokstone,' in East Gothland, Sweden; see Icelandic 
Reader, pp.  446 and 452. This stone stands in the same relation to 
the lost Lay as does the Ruthwell Cross to the Lay of the Rood. The 
identity we assume from the correspondence of the name Theodrick and 
the Maringa with the Mreringaburg where, according to the old English 
Deer's Lay, Theodrick ruled. The stone has no word-division, and 
never doubles a letter. ' A' is a nasal   a.



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Raiþ  þiaurikz bin þurmuþi

Stiliz flutna strandu Hraiþmaraz. 

Sitiz nu garuz a guta sinum 

Skialdi ub fatlaþz skati Maringa. 


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Theodrick the daring of mood, 

the lord of seamen, ruled Redmere'sStrand. 

He, the Prince of the Mrerings, sitteth now in full war-gear on his 
steed, shield-girt. 


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References: Gudbrandr Vigfusson, Corpus Poeticum Boreale, vol. I  p. 
59  



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