Drus Griutinge (a few revisions)

[thiudans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
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> Þata was leitila waihts,
> liþau unswinþa.
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> ...
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> Balþs Balambair
> miþ seinaim brandam qam;
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> That genitive, Balambairis, must have crept in from an earlier
> version.  Still contemplating Walhamers; I'm sticking with this for
> now as it just sounds fiercer!

It sounds fine! Not everyone could have known Hunnic, and might have
made folk-etymologies, or used a kind of mythic license to create
descriptive names. Bal- might be the same element in Bel-Kermek.
Turkish or mongolian? You decide! But if bal-ambar is to mean
Honey-Larder as it would in turkish, we have a peculiar figure;
or maybe it's Bal-Amber "honey-ambergris" :) I'm actually not too
far away from calling it a variation on "Barbar" or "Berber" ;)

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> anþarans ana airþai
> arans nu distaurun,
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> others now eagles upon the earth did rend
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> ...
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> Drugkana afar drauhtin
> ni warþ þamma daga strawohun.
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> No wake was drunk that day for a lord.
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> (Cf. ON drekka erfi eptir + acc.  Gothic 'afar' behaves very much like
> ON 'eptir', dat. for space; acc. for time).
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> ...
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> Lausana ik gasahv þar falkan
> fiþro ana anza.
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> I'm straining the limits of permissible unstressed syllables there;
> that might need more thought.  Also still bearing in mind
> "...afmarzeis / ana markai..." and "lang mel galiþan".  Re. which,
> note 'faur jera fidwortaihun' "14 years ago" (2Cor 12:2) -- accusative
> in Gothic, as against dative in Icelandic (cf. fyr löngu liðit
> (Háttalykill)) and German.

Would it be all right to elide 'ik' or combine to "gasahv-k"?
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