[gothic-l] Re: Goth=Gad

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Tim O'Neill" <scatha at b...> wrote:
> It's not a joke unfortunately.  There's a weird
> branch of fundamentalist Christians called
> 'British Israelites' who believe the twelve lost
> tribes of Israel wandered into northern Europe
> and founded England, amongst other places.



Hi Tim,

Yeah, its always either some extreme forms of religion or
patriotism when reason goes through the window. The text mentioned the
name of Osnabrueck (a town in North Germany) as being derived from
some Israelitic leader (?) called Assi (e.g. Assi-brueck). An extreme
patriot would probably have pointed to the medieval latin name of the
town "Asenburggensis" and claimed that it is derived from the Asen
gods. In reality Osnabrueck means the same as Oxford, i.e. a place at
a river that was shallow enough to drive oxens across ... c'est tout.

cheers,
Dirk




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