[gothic-l] The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names

[Tim O'Neill]

Hails,

I am currently working on an on-line project to produce a screenplay 
of the story of Publius Quinctilius Varus and the Battle of the 
Teutoburgerwald.  I don't imagine it will ever be made into a
film, 
but the idea is to try to produce a script which is as historically 
accurate and detailed as possible while still being an interesting 
and exciting story.

Of course, I will be trying for a very accurate depiction of the 
Germanic peoples in the story and this includes their names and some 
of their language.  I was hoping folks here might be able to help me 
with this aspect of the project.  At the moment I am 
using `*Airmanameros' as the hypothetical West Germanic form 
of `Arminius'.  Or should it be `*Armanameros'? 
I'm also not certain 
about the `-mer(os)' ending, but his father Segimerus had
that ending 
on his name and it seemed a reasonable supposition.  Any comments, 
suggestions or alternatives gratefully accepted.  Any recommended on-
line or `dead tree' material on what first century West
Germanic 
dialects would have been like would be even more gratefully accepted.

Here are a few more names of characters from the story, with some 
attempts at reconstructing their W. Gmc. Forms:

`Segestes' – *Sigigastos – Arminius' father-in-law
`Segimerus' – *Sigimeros – Arminius' father
`Thusnelda' – *Thursnelda – Arminius' wife
`Inguiomerus' – *Ingameros – Segimerus' brother,
Arminius' uncle

You can find the home site of the project, `Clades Variana, with
some 
background material, a discussion forum, reader's polls and the 
screenplay so far (all very much under construction) here:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/2385/varus.html

Cheers,

Tim O'Neill
Tasmanian Devil



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