[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

Hails Halstain (I gothify your name as halstains),

Do you possibly know which documents can contain Gothic writings?

Roel


2015-02-12 19:58 GMT+01:00 halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

>
>
> Hi.
> Modern technology make it possible to find previous writing on reused
> parchment. However the cost reduce the number of manuscripts which this
> technology is applied to. Unfortunately I can't remember what the
> technology is called.
>
> Halstein.
>
> > When I was reading books in Google Books on the internet when I was
> > looking
> > for possibilities of other Gothic manuscripts, I found this book about an
> > ancient Gothic author which claimed that there were in fact dozens of
> > books
> > written in Gothic, even in Gothic runes, but they were almost all
> > destroyed
> > with christianity as a reason, also, it is claimed that there were a lot
> > of
> > books in Wulfilan Gothic, but they ended up as manuscripts which were
> used
> > to overwrite with Latin, of which we found just a few like the Codex
> > Boloniensia, or paper to make bookbindings, this means that if we would
> > seperate parts of some medieval books, there is a certain chance that we
> > would find some Gothic writing inside, but of course, no academic wants
> > existing medieval manuscripts to be destructed, so chance is very small
> > that we will ever find those.
> >
>
>  
>
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