[gothic-l] Re: Castile and Visigothic Tradition

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Carlos Carvalho" <cdecarvalho at s...> wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> By "pure" Visigothic I mean the writing that was not influenced
> by Carolina style, that followed. Most of these documents are in
Latin,
> however.
> It is indeed an old Hispanic (but also appears in France and Italy).
> It is also said to be invented by Wulfila.
> It is quite different from the German script who carries a similar
name and
> appears here and there. (if we are talking about the same font-
style)
>
> Please have a look at:
> http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/history4.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos Carvalho


Hi Carlos,

thanks a lot for the link. I understand that the Visigothic script is
really a Latin minuscle of Spain which preceeded the Carolingian
script. I don't think that it has any linguistic relationship with
the Gothic language. The name seemed to have been given to denote the
era when it was used rather than an ethnic linguistic affiliation
with Visigothic or the Visigoths. This would also be natural, since
the Gothic language was discontinued among the Visigoth at a very
early stage. In fact, the 'Tabulatura Gentes' of about 520AD calls
the Visigoths also Valagoths (i.e. the Romanic speaking Goths).

cheers
Dirk



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