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

[Le Bateman]

Sorry I meant patranymic surnames. Le
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From: "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at NetZero.Net>
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Subject: Re: [gothic-l] The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names


> Since many of the Germanic surnames are patramynic would it be plausible
to
> say that Erminus would have been called Ermanius Segestesen.
> Le
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> From: "Tim O'Neill" <scatha at bigpond.com>
> To: <gothic-l at egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:29 PM
> Subject: [gothic-l] The Varus Film Project - West Germanic names
>
>
> 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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