[gothic-l] Goths in Fiction

[Matthew Carver]

on 2003.02.11 17.56, greg scaff at g_scaff at yahoo.com wrote:

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> Hello all,
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> I realise this isn't the normal Gothic list matter- but- more or less out of
> curiosity, I have compiled a list of novels in English consisting of Goths as
> main characters, or set within the various Gothic lands.  I would be
> interested in hearing about any others.  I have :
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> An Odor of Sanctity  Frank Yerby.   A Visigoth in Islamic Spain
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> Lest Darkness Fall  L.Sprague de Camp  A time traveler lands in the last days
> of Ostrogothic Italy and alters history.  Includes a few fragments of
> vernacular Gothic.
>
> Raptor  Gary Jennings  Set in the beginnings of the Ostrogothic kingdom, again
> there are a few  sentences of spoken Gothic.
>
> One question  I'd like to  ask the  linguists-  these latter 2 novels include
> rare scraps of vernacular Gothic- outside of linguistic texts, in print, what
> other attempts have their been at spoken Gothic since  say, the Middle ages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
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Maszman in the 19th century probably spoke it. I only have records of his
compositions (such as a fragment of a lyric).

-Matthew


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