[gothic-l] Re: Marcomannic Challenge in _Gladiator_

[Brian Beck]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, jdm314 at a... wrote:
>     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?"
>
I must admit I missed it, but your suggestion certainly makes sense.
Perhaps it was "sukst thu nu hyvde" or something like that.  It
sounds vaguely Scandinavian.

Brian


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