[gothic-l] Re: Castile and Visigothic Tradition

[Tim O'Neill]

On Friday, July 19, 2002 5:53 PM, faltin2001 [SMTP:dirk at smra.co.uk] wrote:
> --- 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.

This is correct.  The 'Visigothic' script/s of Spain have no
relation to the alphabet of Wulfila, as the link provided
indicates.
Cheers,

Tim O'Neill

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