[gothic-l] Re: Anagastes?

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, MCLSSAA2 at f... wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Brian Beck" <babeck at a...> wrote:
> > But the 'ana-' puzzles me. Could it be a typo (what did they call
> > typos before typewriters?) for 'Ansa-' - 'god' or 'Anda-' -
> > 'spirit', which are common elements in Germanic names?
>
> Another consonant omission that was likely a typo rather than of
> linguistic significance is in Anglo-Saxon verse in runes on the
> Franks
> whalebone casket: {hos her sitaeth on harmbergae} = "here the horse
> sits on the harmful mound", where {hos} clearly means "horse"
because
> the accompanying carved picture shows a horse standing by [its usual
> rider's?] grave-mound.



Hello,

Gregory Vernadsky called in his book 'Ancient Russia' the name Anagast
a 'typical Antic name'. Vernadsky explaines that the Antes were an
Irano-Slavic tribe in the Black Sea area. I am not sure that I agree,
as I think that **gast* is Germanic, but perhaps the first part *Ana*
was borrowed from a different language?

best
Dirk














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