[gothic-l] Sources on the Goths I

[Bertil Häggman]

Keth,

Am not aware of Hachmann and have not read him
but here is a package as an alternative starting with Professor
Pritsak. The whole work of Professor Pritsak, as can be
seen from list of contents underneath does not pertain
exclusively to the Goths but parts of the book is of
interest.

Omeljan Pritsak, _The Origin of Rus - Volume One -
Old Scandinavian Sources other than Sagas_
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 1981, 926 pp.

Part One General Introduction
Chapter 1 Exposition to the Entire Work:
The Origin of Rus
Chapter 2 Introduction to Volumes One and Two:
The Cultural Setting: The West
Chapter 3 The Cultural Setting in the East
Chapter 4 Historiography of Old Scandinavian Sources
Pertaining to Eastern Europe
Part Two Poetry and Myth as Historical Sources
Chapter 5 The Eddaic Poems and Their Manuscript Tradition
Chapter 6 From Myth to Epic and History: The Helgi Cycle
Chapter 7 The Migrational Myth and Two Historical
Transplantations
Chapter 8 Haddingus/Haddingjar and the Norse Attack
on Constantinople in 860
Chapter 9 Hnaef and Hnabi/Oenevus. New Approach to the
Fight at Finnsburg and Old Danish Coenogardia
Chapter 10 The Battle of the Goths and Huns
Chapter 11 Snorri's "Gelehrte Urgeschichte": Has It a
Historical Basis?
Chapter 12 The Poetry of the Skalds. Skaldic Poetry as a
Historical Source
Part Three The Runic Inscriptions
Chapter 13 The Runic Inscriptions in Younger Futhark
Chapter 14 The Geographical Vistas of the Runic Inscriptions
Chapter 15 The Varangians at Home and Abroad
Chapter 16 Jakun, the Varangian King of the Year 1024
Chapter 17 Yngvarr hinn vidforli and His Campaign in Saerkland (1041)
Chapter 18 Merchant Guilds in Eleventh-Century Sweden
Part Four The Laws as a Historical Source
Chapter 19 The Old Scandinavian Laws
Chapter 20 The Old Frisian Laws
Bibliography and Bibliographical Essays
Tables

Then of course there is Wolfram, to well known
to need a presentation here.


Herwig Wolfram: "History of the Goths"
(Translated by Thomas J. Dunlap)
University of California Press
ISBN 0520069838 (Paperback edition 1990)

Gothically

Bertil


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