[gothic-l] Marcomannic Challenge in _Gladiator_

[Le Bateman]

Actually they normally did not sever the heads of their prisoners but
offered them to their god of war by hanging them on the nearest oak tree.
Le
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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:40 PM
Subject: [gothic-l] Marcomannic Challenge in _Gladiator_


>     A while back there was a thread on the Germanic in the opening scene
of
> the movie Gladiator. Pretty much all the posts seemed to be along the
lines
> of "I wasn't expecting it, so I didn't catch it at all! What the heck did
he
> say?"
>     A friend of mine, a graduate student in Scandinavian Studies with a
> (un)healthy interest in historical linguistics says that when he saw the
> movie Gladiator he instantly interpreted the first sentence of the chief's
> challenge as something like "suk thu nu hyde?" (spelling is mine), which
> would mean something like "sokjist thu nu haubith?" i.e. "Are you looking
for
> the head, now?"
>     This quote would indeed make perfect sense in the context: as you'll
> recall the Roman envoy has just returned, strapped to his horse, but
missing
> a very important part of his body. The Germanic chieftain comes out of the
> woods holding the severed head and shouts out whatever it is he shouts.
>
>     So, haveany of the rest of you have any luck with this since it last
came
> up?
>
>
> IUSTEINUS
>
>
> ps. Sarah Patton- translating the word "Mistaken" into Gothic is very
> difficult without context. Who or what is mistaken?
>
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