[gothic-l] Re: Friedegern

[Ingemar Nordgren]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at A...> wrote:
>  Can someone tell me who the parents of Friedegern the leader of the
Goths
> at Adrianople. Were these Visigoths or Ostrogoths. Since some of the
double
> consenants in their language made the ng sound like double g of even
kn. Did
> they
> borrow these from Greek?  When spoken did iit sound like a form of
German.
> Like Frisian, or Saxon?
> Le

Hi Le,

You must be talking of Fritigern? I did not know his parents, sorry.

Best
Ingemar



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