logic error: Gapt [gothic-l]

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Something further to consider in evaluating Grimm's perspective on
Gapt/Gaut:  Theodoric the Great is 15 generations away from "Gapt" in the
Amali geneology.  Some of the English geneologies trace back to Geat, which
is, as we know, cognate to Gaut (but not to Gapt).  The Wessex King Cerdic
died in 534, about a decade after Theodoric.  _Exactly 15_ generations
behind Cerdic in the genealogy, we find Geat.  Coincidence?  No, it seems
more likely that both of these genealogies, which developed independent from
one another, are tracing back to the same Gaut/Geat.  Had the Amali
genealogy truly had a Gapt rather than Gaut, we might expect the English
genalogies to trace back to a Geft of Gift, which they do not.

Albareiks


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