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<p>Well, I think that finally we've got a (master-!)piece of true <br>
Gothic poetry whatever Elfriede Stutz may have stated. Where in the <br>
dark cellars of antiquarian bibliothecae did Llama find the last <br>
surviving manuscript of an unknown Ostrogothic Homer? Or were they <br>
communicating in sleep? Or maybe we should believe in reincarnation? <br>
Whatever the truth, the poem is great, "both in quantitative and <br>
qualitative aspect" as someone used to say :-). Let me start with <br>
proper names only, I've got some questions to the liužareis.<br>
<br>
Aistjus "Ests" has this clan name something to do with Aestii of <br>
Tacitus and Jordanes? In which case it could be an i-stem, *Aisteis <br>
pl.?<br>
<br>
What's the meaning of Idumiggos?<br>
<br>
Iž galgin ridun / Gunžirunos "But upon the gallows rode Godrun's"<br>
I guess there's some ON or OE or maybe Gothic metaphor behind it? <br>
Could you please tell us? Gunžiruna *walakuzjo?<br>
<br>
Ana Danaprais stažam (et passim) "on the banks of the Dniepr" it's <br>
after ON Danparstašir, isn't it? *Danaprs as I can gather is thought <br>
to be an i-stem fem. Jordanes used Danaper masc. and one time <br>
Danaprum neutr. (Get. 30: magnumque illud Danaprum Taurumque <br>
montem..., if illud is not a typo for illum acc. masc. here). The <br>
formation is probably the same as in Danaster /-trum. In ON a re-<br>
distribution (Neuverteilung) of morphemes took place and the final<br>
r- of the stem became a flective ending, hence Danpr, gen. Danpar. <br>
Cf. also later Slavic forms: ORuss. DnEpru > Russ. Dnepr, Ukr. <br>
Dnipro - all masc. All this leads me to think that Gothic had a <br>
form like *Danaprus M.-u or *Danaprs M.-a/-i, in which case gen. <br>
would be *Danapraus or *Danapris. BTW., are you sure that it was <br>
staža "banks", not stadeis "places" (as in ON). Ana Danapraus <br>
stadim? Or better as a compound *Danaprustadeis/<wbr>-staža?<br>
<br>
Augeis kunjis "of Augis's kin"; Imrikins banins "of Imrika's <br>
slayer" what are these names? Are they attested (and what do they <br>
mean)?<br>
<br>
žairh Mairqiwidu "through the Dark Forest" aha, here is Gothic <br>
Myrkvišr finally! So you think that was originally a forest between <br>
Goths and Huns (like in Hlöšskviša)? I heard a lot of theories about <br>
its supposed historical location. One of them is that it = <br>
Herodote's hYLAIH "forested region" between Dnieper and Don.<br>
<br>
faur Salwo swumfsl "by the Murky Lake" and is there a proto-type <br>
of this?<br>
<br>
Hraide "of the Hred-Goths" I guess you have an example of such a <br>
usage in ON or OE?<br>
<br>
und Hailago hlaiw, / žarei und hita standiž "unto the Holy Howe, <br>
there where it stands to this day" <= (Hlöšskviša 10) gröf žį ina <br>
helgu, / er stendr į Gošžjóšu, right?<br>
<br>
Uldinis ... arbjans "Uldin's heirs" I guess it's the same Uldin <br>
who was mentioned as a leader of the Danube Huns about 400 CE. Could <br>
the Huns of the Invasion time (375 CE) be called "Uldin's heirs"?<br>
<br>
Balžs Balambairis "Bold Balamber". Jordanes' Balamber which also <br>
reads in codices as Balamir and Balamur has been often thought to be <br>
a distortion of Gothic Walamers (through Greek intermediation, cf. <br>
BALAMEROS in Priscus 28 a "Scythic" name). Maybe there was a <br>
Hunnish name later Gothicized (like in the case of Attila, Rugila <br>
etc)? I'd use *Balamers, if not Walamers. Keeping the rhyme, Balžs <br>
Balamers...<br>
<br>
Alisins geza "Alisa's stronghold" again a name which I <br>
can't "decipher".<br>
<br>
Humlins magiwe "of Humla's boys" maybe Humila is better for ON <br>
Humli? Or that would yield *Hymli?<br>
<br>
Unwen Jordanes Hunuil? I heard there was an OE parallel name, <br>
right?<br>
<br>
ibnan / Airpamarhin "Erpamarha's equal". In the text (Get. 43) it <br>
stands as Eterpamara. What is this Et-, if we accept your <br>
reconstruction? Are there other examples where marha is attested as <br>
a weak noun in Germanic names?<br>
<br>
Ualarauans (with admiration)<br>
<br>
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