Name of the Goths

[Tore Gannholm]

On Aug 6, 2006, at 1:37 AM, Ingemar Nordgren wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> The names of Gudones,Gutones, Gutar and Gautar are linguistically the
> same word and they all lived/live around the Baltic and partly
> Kattegat. In other words they seem to have a common origin even if
> later some spoke Eastgermanic and some Northgermanic. There is a good
> analysis by professor Th.Andersson 1996	'Götar, goter, gutar'. In
> Namn och Bygd nr. 1 1996, p. 5-21.
>
> I cite some sentences:
>
> ”A people referred to as *gautoz/*gutaniz, inhabiting the  
> region in
> and around the southern Baltic Sea, appear to have been the ancestors
> of the Scandinavian *gautoz 'Geat’s and *gutaniz  
> 'Gotlander’s and the
> East Germanic tribe of the *gutaniz 'Goth’s.” He also  
> refers to these
> tribes as Goto-Nordic. (Th. Andersson 1998, p.15 f , 21)
>

Ingemar,
You should fix your computer it gives funny signs.

Tore


>
> and people from all over the Baltic and Kattegat region.
>
> Accordingly the question of the Gothic name and the Gothic origin is
> by no means solved.
>
> Best
> Ingemar



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



You are a member of the Gothic-L list.  To unsubscribe, send a blank email to <gothic-l-unsubscribe at egroups.com>. 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gothic-l/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    gothic-l-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/