[gothic-l] Re: Runic Influences

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Hello,

 We had this debate quite recently (it could have been on
Germanic-L) and the thread kept on for a long time. But it went
mors subita after an italian input. Are you here?

Anyway, if I remember this right Italian scholars have interpreted
it long ago something like this=>

HARIGASTI = gen. of name Harigast
TEI = under the military (?) command of Teus (gen. Tei)
VA = Fifth (V) cavalry (A = alani) regiment 

Something like that. No Odin, no. No Harii, No Harudi. :<( Drab,
huh?

Sig 

Francisc Czobor wrote:
> 
> I remember that I have read somewhere that the oldest known Germanic
> inscription (dating from 3th century B.C., if I'm not wrong) is
> HARIGASTI TEIWA, in Etruscan scipt, written on some object (helmet, or
> horn?), found somewhere in Austria (or North Italy ?).
> Sorry, but I can remember exactly only the content of that
> inscription.
> 
> Francisc
> 
> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, MCLSSAA2 at f... wrote:
> > --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> > > Most probably the Latin alphabet could be seen as
> > > the major influence on the establishment of the futhark. ...
> >
> > Parhaps someone from near the Baltic went to Italy to sell amber,
> and
> > there he learned a North Italian alphabet to help him to record his
> > transactions, and then he went straight back to the north.
> >
> > I seem to remember reading many years ago that:-
> >
> > (1) The runes look most like versions of the alphabet that were used
> > in North Italy, rather than the Roman version.
> > (2) Someone found a Germanic helmet that had belonged to someone
> > called Haryawulfaz Hathuwulfingaz, and he had scratched his name
> into
> > it in an Italian-type alphabet.
> 
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