A short gothic poem

[Grsartor at AOL.COM]

Sorry to quibble at this stage, but:
 
(i) I think "sijain" should be "sijai".
 
(ii) I think the original choice of "fulhan" for "(lying) buried" was  
right. The form "filhada" means that a thing is buried in the sense that someone 
 is in the act or habit of burying it. Since the burial is complete you 
want the  past participle, which is passive in sense. In the modern Germanic 
languages it  is apparently active when used with "have" as an auxiliary, but 
this  construction I think was adopted from the Latin tongues, and does not 
appear in  Gothic. In any case the true passive sense is brought out in 
modern German, or  occasionally in English, e.g.
 
The police have got the building surrounded (= the police have surrounded  
the building).
 
Gerry T.
 
 
In a message dated 05/07/2013 21:19:17 GMT Daylight Time, nodead4 at yahoo.es  
writes:

Understood!

Therefore, the poem finally is of this  form:

Hvar ist othal unsar? / Hvar ist arbi unsar?
Afilhada  ufarmaudeins af-grundithai 
Hindana  thizos ahwos,  aiwis andéis  
Wulthag sijain fraweit. 

I was using "heritage" as broadly meant,  so I finally choose "arby" 
instead of "othal" then. I guess you should be  credited in the recording booklet!!

Many thanx to all.  



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "nodead4" <nodead4 at ...>  wrote:
>
> Hello all, I have composed a short poem Gothic  language. I'm not a 
linguist nor an expert, so there will be several mistakes.  Some help is 
requested to make it right. (This is part of a song in english,  but I wanted to 
include this speech in a middle section).
> 
>  
> Hvar ist othal unsar? (where is our heritage?)
> Fulhans ana  ufar maudeis af-grunditha (buried into the abyss of oblivion)
> Thairh  thata ahwa,  aiws and�is (across the river, the end of an era)
>  Wolthags fraweit wisan. (Glorious revenge be)
> 
> 
> Thanx  in  advance.
>




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