[gothic-l] Gothic versus other Germanic languages

[Anthony Appleyard]

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 :Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at tninet.se> wrote or quoted (Subject: Die Gotenquelle 
I) (my translation):-
> This work gives out the hypothesis that the Goths were no [single] folk,
> but an assemblage of separate tribes and peoples,
> who became linked by a common cult.

> Diese Arbeit geht von der Hypothese aus, dass die Goten kein Volk,
> sondern eine Anzahl verschiedener Staemme und Voelker waren, die
> durch einen gemeinsamen Kult zusammen-gehalten wurden. ...

If so, what proportion of the peoples historically known as Visigoths and 
Ostrogoths that inmvaded Spain and Italy, are likely to have been Goths in the 
strict sense and talked Wulfila's language, and what proportion are likely to 
have been other Germanic peoples allied with them and talking other Germanic 
languages?

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