[gothic-l] Re: first person &runes + Scandinavia

[Tore Gannholm]

>Hails!
>


As I have earlier pointed out the Roman name for the present day
Scandinavia was Thule.
Tore


>Attempts to link Scandinavia and Scania may be misguided. Koebler
>suggests the name Gothiscandza < Gutiskandja, i.e. the ends or confines
>of the regions of the Gothic people. If this is so, then Scandinavia
>(of its own origin) would have been corrupted and conflated with
>Gothiscandza in the form of Scandia/Scandza. However unlikely, the
>linguistic reconstruction is truly intriguing.
>
>Matþaius
>
>--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, bertil <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
>> Anthony,
>>
>> Of course, but that does not mean that
>> the inscriptions beginning with "I"
>> are not a novelty.
>>
>> Scandinavia, in my humble opinion, comes
>> from the name of the province Scania.
>> The is based on "skada" (injury) and
>> refers to the dangerous sandbanks (still
>> there) of the southwesterly tip of
>> Scania (Falsterbo rev). The small town
>> of Skanoer on the peninsula there reminds
>> of the origin of the name Scandinavia.
>> In addition "-oer" means sandbank also
>> to be found in the name of Elsinore in Danish
>> (Helsingoer).
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>
>>
>> Professor Svennung of Uppsala has written a book
>> on the origin of the name Scandinavia. Alas, it
>> is published in German but there is an English
>> summary. If you go to the archives, I have written
>> earlier on this.
>>
>> Scandinavially
>>
>> Bertil
>>
>> > There are Germanic inscriptions where the author uses the 3rd person. e=
>
>.g. I
>> > read about one (I think) "Boso rist runar" = "Boso carved the runes".
>> >
>> > I read that the name "Scandinavia" comes from a Roman source and that t=
>
>he
>> > parrt {-avia} is the Common Germanic ror "island". Where else in German=
>
>icdom
>> > does the name or word "skand-" occur, and with what meaning?
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