Warrior Class

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Valulfr_Vaerulsson at ... wrote:
>
> Hail Rutgur and Ingemar,
> 
> There is also the 'drauhtin' or 'war-lord'.  I'm not sure what 
exactly the
> function was on the battle field, but I do that the word came down 
into Old
> Norse as 'drótt' meaning the 'warrior-band', and 'dróttinn' as war-
lord, and
> eventually as 'Lord'or'God' in a Christian sense.

It didn't "come down", strictly spoken. It was inherited both by ON 
and Gothic from PGrm. The Gothic form (*drauhtins, that is) is not 
attested.

Ualarauans

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