[gothic-l] The Gothic Name

[Bertil Haggman]

You are welcome to explain my misunderstanding
of Wolfram in relation to the Gothic name.

Bertil Haggman

> --- In gothic-l at y..., "Bertil Haggman" <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> > In Chapter 1 Wolfram (1988):
> >
> > "Does the root Gut/Gaut - which means "the one who pours
> > out" - derive from the Scandinavian river that drains the
> > huge Lake Vener (Wolfram obviously refers to Lake Vaenern)
> > into the Kattegat, or are the Goths and Gauts the "men"
> > or even the "stallions" in the sense of "seed spreaders?
> > Or are the Gauts and Goths perhaps the sons of Gaut, the
> > god of war, who is the leader of war bands both in Scandinavia
> > and Germania? Since the Gothic tradition provides evidence
> > for all of these interpretations, to select one and exclude
> > the others is arbitrary. But of greater historical importance than
> > etymology is the lingustic insight that the "tribal name Goths means
> > the same as Gauts." So why not end the fruitless quarrels
> > and "believe" Theoderic the Great, who derives his origins and those
> > of his Goths from Scandinavia."
> >
> > Couldn't agree more about what Professor Wolfram is writing.
> >
>
>
> I really wonder if you honestly don't understand these texts or if
> you do that on purpose.


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