Boz = Bus < *Baus?

[ualarauans]

Hi Tore and Ingemar,

>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Tore Gannholm <tore@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > This is very interesting. We know from Gotlandic sorces that 
the  
> > Gotlanders in the 12th century met people at the Black Sea 
speaking  
> > their language. Is there anything more written about it?
> > 
> > Tore
> > 

I feel I must add that the suggested interpretation of the fragment 
as referring to the Black Sea Goths is though rather attractive and 
has a tradition (see, ua. R. Loewe▓s Die Reste der Germanen am 
Schwarzen Meer. Halle, 1896 √ p. 35ff.), but is no way the only 
possible. Some think it could as well (or still more probable) refer 
to the Goths of Gotland. If I▓m not misinformed so far, it was 
Gotland which was called gotЭskyjЭ beregЗ ⌠the Gothic seashore■ in 
contemporary annals of Holmgaard (to be compared with the ⌠Gothic 
maids on the shore of the blue sea■ in the Lay of Igor). Still, if 
we may prefer the ⌠South Goths■ hypothesis and moreover assume some 
Scandinavian (or even Gothic) proto-text standing behind this 
particular place of the Lay, we could take sinemu morju ⌠of the blue 
sea■ as a calque from Germanic, bearing in mind that ON blaar was 
both ⌠blue■ and ⌠black■ (hrafnblaar ⌠raven-black■). Isn▓t this a 
direct reference to the Black Sea then? Since when is the Black Sea 
called ⌠black■? As far as I know it was called Svartahaf in the 
Viking Age already. Was it so in the Voelkerwanderung time?
If we could think that the Crimean Goths still were of considerable 
political and military strength in the time of the Lay (ca. 12th 
ct.), then the discussed fragment might have been a piece of what we 
now would call ⌠hate propaganda■ preceding a declaration of war, in 
the sense: ⌠look how they celebrate our past defeat, their women 
enjoying goods stolen from our forefathers... and the women are so 
beautiful etc etc■ (alas, they couldn▓t get suspected of developing 
mass destruction weapons and possessing superfluous oilfields in 
that time).

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> Bos/Boz is interpreted as lord
> (worldly-royal or noble) and also as God.
> 

Thanks a lot for the informative comment, Ingemar. I wonder what is 
the etymology of the (Old) Swedish Bos? No connections with Dutch 
baas > NE boss?

Ualarauans






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