LL-L: "Gothic" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 20.JUN.1999 (01)

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at geocities.com>
Subject: Gothic

I wrote:

> Gothic is the best known representative of this now extinct East Germanic
> branch.  There are reports of a remnant of it still having been used in the
eighteenth or
> nineteenth century in the Black Sea area, which is roughly the traditional
> homeland of Gothic, though oral history and recent scholarship seem to point
to
> Southern Sweden's Gotland region as the origin of the Gothic people.

Correction:  It is generally assumed that Gothic was extinct by the 18th
century.  In the 16th century a Belgian visitor to the east interviewed two
informants who spoke what is assumed a form of Ostrogothic with Greek
interference.  Also it must be mentioned that the Goths seem to have arrived in
Continental Europe in the area of the Vistula River in what is now the general
area of Eastern Poland and the Baltic countries.  They moved southward from
there, the Ostrogoths to what is now Ukraine and the Visigoths to what is now
Romania and Bulgaria.  They were a constant thorn in the side of the Roman
empire.  The Visigoths eventually invaded and ruled large parts of Italy and
Spain.  The Goths are assumed to have been absorbed into the ethnic groups that
now inhabit the above-mentioned areas.

Regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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