[gothic-l] Lay of Theodoric the Goth

[Bertil Häggman]

Anthanareiks,

This is not a fragment (?) but one of Scandinavia's
most famous runestones (the Roekstone). The
Gothic related part is:

raith thia u ikR hin thu r muthi stiliR
f l utna strantu hrathmarar stir nu karur g
k u ta sin um skial ti ath R skati  mar l ka

In modern Swedish:

Daa raadde Tjodrik
den dristige,
sjoekrigarnas hoevding
oever Reidhavets kust.
Nu sitter han rustad
paa sin gotiska haest,
med skoeld oever axeln,
den fraemste av maeringar.

These are lines 9-11 of in all 28.

See in English Loennroth, Lars, "The Riddles of the Roek-Stone:
A Structural Approach", Lund (1977)

Gothically

Bertil

>     A fragment on an ancient Runic stone (early tenth century ?),
> known as the. Rokstone,' in East Gothland, Sweden; see Icelandic
> Reader, pp.  446 and 452. This stone stands in the same relation to
> the lost Lay as does the Ruthwell Cross to the Lay of the Rood. The
> identity we assume from the correspondence of the name Theodrick and
> the Maringa with the Mreringaburg where, according to the old English
> Deer's Lay, Theodrick ruled. The stone has no word-division, and
> never doubles a letter. ' A' is a nasal   a.



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