a Gothic poem (verse 3)--syntax, word usage

[David Kiltz]

On 31.08.2005, at 03:00, Le Bateman wrote:

>    Volume I Grimm's Teutonic Mythology. Reprint of the 1876 edition.
> Le

Thank you very much.

llama/ Arthur:
On the note of Gothic 'to dream'. No, I can't find an attested form  
either in the Gothic corpus. However, next to _*draum-, draugm-_  
consider derivatives of PGerm. _*sweƀnaz_ (swebnaz_). In the OldEngl.  
poem 'Dream of the Rood' we find the expression "...swefna ... hwaet  
me gemaette", thus, a dream 'that met me'. So Arthur might, perhaps,  
as well consider using something like _*swibns_ as 'dream'. As for  
impersonal expressions like 'methinks/ mich dünkt', it should be  
noted that in (archaizing) NHGerman it's 'mir träumt' with dative,  
not accusative. In Icelandic it's the accusative e.g. 'mik dreymdi  
draum'.

-David





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