[gothic-l] Re: Beowulf and the Geats

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, keth at o... wrote:
> Bertil Häggman wrote:
> This text suggest the following sound change:
>  OE Giuli --> (modern English?) Yule

That depends on whether the G in Giuli was pronounced, or whether it 
was a graphy for initial [y] as in "yacht".
 
> Following a similar pattern, one would then get:
>   OE  Geats --> (medieval English?) Yats
 If the Geats are the Gautar, the [ea] would be long, and the 
standard modern English outcome would have been *"Yeats".

> ?? With some goodwill, we should then have our "Jutes" ¿¿

What parts of Scandinavia preserved Common Germanic initial [j]? If 
[ju:taz] was Common Germanic for "a Jute", that [j] survives in 
modern Danish "Jylland", but I thought that Common Germanic initial 
[j] disappeared in Old Norse.


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