[gothic-l] James Marchand

[Magnus Hreinn Snaedal]

Yes, James W. Marchand is a well known Gothic scholar.
But that he "has discovered several unknown Gothic words, including 'hors',
meaning pimp" must be a misunderstanding of the jurnalist. The word 'hors'
has been known fora a long time, as it is attested in Luke 18:11 and five
times in the Pauline Epistles.

M.Sn.

At 13:08 14.11.2000 +0100, you wrote:
>The other day I found in my archive
>an article from Time magazine of 1991
>on James Marchand. Is or was he well known
>in Gothic language circles. He had invented
>a way to scrutinize documents reused by
>Italian monks to find underlying Gothic
>words. One of his discoveries of new Gothic
>words was hors, meaning pimp, believe it or not.
>
>"The Palimpsest Man - A linguist with a knack for
>computers uses technology to restore a trove
>of long-erased Gothic manuscripts", September 9,
>1991.
>
>Gothically
>
>Bertil
>
>
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