construction of gothic scandinavian urheimat

[Michal Cigan]

Hi,
  some times (maybe year/s) ago i saw a piece on this board
  treating of (or better linking to) the theory, that Goths
  did not came from Scandinavia, but rather they - or their 
  group identity - were established only later and on another place; from  germanic tribes living beside roman limes (if I remember correct the  topic of the piece). Could someone remind me the source of this theory;  book, or maybe make correct this my opinion, if my flashback is more or  less wrong...
  
  Michal

Fredrik <gadrauhts at hotmail.com> wrote:                                          Hi all. I hope that there still are a few fellows here so this isn't 
  totalt in vain.
  
  I though about words for civilization and verbs to describe it, like 
  civilize.
  
  After I thought a while I came up with an idea which was based on the 
  word un-mana-riggws which means smth like fierce, cruel, barbaric and 
  took the oposite word mana-riggws to mean civilized, (mostly an 
  oposite meaning of barbaric). As noun I used mana-riggwitha (sf). I'd 
  like to know what riggws is and what it mean.
  
  Later I found out that I already translated the word 'civilized' but 
  forgot about it. At that earlier time I used uf-hausjands as the 
  meaning 'behaved'.
  
  I also think there's a connection between the words civilization and 
  culture, both coz civilized countries/people have a higher culture. 
  And the icelandic word has a connection. Right now I can't tell for 
  sure but if I remember correct civilization is siðmenning or smth 
  like that and siða (a verb) means to bring up and menning (not sure 
  if thats totally correct either) means culture, probably from a verb 
  meaning 'to make a (behaved?) man of'
  
  Any ideas about this?
  
  What would the gothic word for the Cultural Revolution be?
  
  
      
                                                            

       
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