[gothic-l] Re: Godheimar=the home of the Goths

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Bertil,

It seems that we are talking about the same thing.
Like Prof. Pritsak, I saw too a reinterpretation through popular 
etymology of Got- as God- (in Godthjod, Godheimar etc.).
But, in the case of Godheimar, I am not sure if it is not indeed the 
"home  of Gods". I know to little about the subject to risk to sustain 
a point of view or other.

Francisc


--- In gothic-l at y..., Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Well, Francisc, I can only quote professor
> Pritsak and let his interpretation be included
> among the many others.
>  
> "Snorri's epic source thus unkowingly preserves
> the old geographic nomenclature from  Eastern
> Europe disguised as a popular etymology, just as 
> the lay The Battle of the Goths and the Huns did. Godheimar 
> should not be understood as "god home" but as "the
> home of the Goths". (p. 250, _The Origin of Rus_).
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil
> 
> I hope that you did not missundertand me. When I referred to a 
> contamination between "God" and "Got", I did not mean that this 
> contamination is due to you or to Prof. Pritsak. I meant that this 
> contamination (or popular etymology) occured in the language of the 
> authors/propagators of the Old Norse sagas, that (in my view) 
> reinterpreted Got-thjod "Gothic people" as God-thjod "people of 
gods" 
> or "God's people".


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