Neo-gothic poem needs help

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at y...> 
wrote:
> Dear llama_nom (is that anything like a pan-Romance "pick a name?")


No, it's a Tibetan-Peruvian mix-up, a sort of dharmic Jeckel & Hyde 
(Ogden Nash?: "one L a priest, two Ls a beast").  Originally tried 
to be Lama Nom (after a name in a dream), but forgot my first 
password.  But if Yahoo Groups was a spaghetti western (and who says 
it won't be one day?), then sure, I'd be that noted desperado [Me 
Llamo] Nombre, "the man with no name AND a name".


 
> Also, the accusative 'mik draumeith' was logical and reminded me 
of the archaic NHG "mich duenkt" --methinks in English.



My rule of thumb is, never rely on logic when it comes to human 
languages.  Just look at what they do.  The Gothic equivalent 
of "methinks" takes a dative object as in Icelandic, e.g. Mt 6,7 
þugkeiþ im "they think".



> Cleasy & Vigfusson raise another topic: How does it conveniently 
happen that precisely those sections of Wulfila got lost? 
Coincidence? Methinks not. It's a conspiracy, that's what it is.



I was just impressed by the showing off.  It may not know the 
answer, but it knows where the answer WOULD HAVE BEEN.  This in the 
days before computer searches.  That's a lot of bible reading, 
methinks.


 
> Second verse under construction:
>  
> I dreamt of Greuthung warrior-men
>      Like mice in great cat-claws
> First caught, then freed, then caught again
>      Then slain against our walls.


Mik Griutugge draumida gadrauhtins, swe mus in mikilaim katturampom 
frumist gafahanans, þaþroh þan galausidans, þaþroh þan aftra 
gafahanans, jah afslahanans wiþra (baurgs)waddjuns unsaros.

 
> Amal retention.


Boh!

Ll.N.





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