Poety to translate?

[John Stewart]

Hails Thiudans!

I haven't read Koebler, but this *THl- cluster has always seemed awkward to 
me. Does he suggest that it could be a scribal error? Where maybe Wulfila 
wrote the Gothic <f> and when it was copied, someone misread it as <Þ> (TH-)?
(John S.)

> on. Still I must not forget to remind us of the fact that, whatever
> its true etymology, Wulfila wrote the word for fly, flight, capable of
> flight, etc. with a thl- initial cluster, therefore in the poem, if we
> take the insect as related to the root, perhaps it should be
> *THl(i)ugo (< Gmc. *fl[e]ugon or *thl- "Fly or Moth"; or, Go. *THlugi
> < ? *flugjan "flying insect" [Orel])? It is unfortunate we cannot know
> precisely how this variation occured. Orel corrects to fl-, Koebler
> seems to suggest both possibilities (except for THlahsjan ?).
> 




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