SV: [gothic-l] Digest Number 398

[Sigmund]

Hails.


Matthew wrote:

"Discuss Heruls or
Icelanders in relation to Goths if you wish, but not in relation to each
other. If you desire the latter, please move the discussion to the
appropriate list."

Amen. Lately I have been getting more and more problems with this when focusing on the Vandals in the aftermath of the Vandalic exhibition in Sweden.
One new contact in Germany is a certain Kerstin A. (dare not write her full name due to the recent PUL law), who has put upp a nice site on, inter alia, the Vandals (beautiful summary of their history). How gotisch where they? They came from the same region, moved almost in parallell and were believed to speak very closely related East Germanic dialects and -- this is something I really would love to have confirmed -- while in North Africa the Vandals were by some believed to have used the Wulffian bible (both being arians, converted and taught by same group of Byzantine missionaries etc).
As we know the remaining Codex Argenteus was robbed from Prague after a military conquest by the Swedes. Prague -- isn't that Silingian territory (the Silingi being one of the two major Vandalic tribes, the other one being the Hasdingi) or at least on the fringe of Silesia, believed to be the Urheimat of the Silingi? Could there be in the common historical awareness in Prague something that made it particularly compelling to own it?
I sometimes find Vandalian issues to fall between Germanic and Gothic. What is the general sentiment among Gothic specialists here? Should they be reckoned with the Goths?

Sig



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