[gothic-l] Gothic words?

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

On 1 Feb 2002, at 4:03, Sahin Ahmet wrote:

> 
> If anybody could answer some fundamental questions for me .?          
>                         By what word did Goths call themselves?.
Dear Sahin Ahmet,

by epigraphic sources from the third century they called  
themselves Guththa, in texts from the fourth century also Tervingi 
or Vesi  and Greuthingi or Ostrogothi, by official Latin texts from 
the Ostrogothic and the Visigothic kingdom Gothus pl. Gothi and 
Ostrogothi and Visigothi.
 Is it
> the same for both visi and ostro goths? Is the term "Goth" is an
> outsider term? 

It is the same for both Visigothi and Ostrogothi and Gothus is not 
an outsider term.
 
what commonality was there between the ostro and visi
> goths that made them goths different from other germanic tribes.?
> 


They spoke Gothic and they called themselves Goths, and 
Visigoths and Ostrogoths had close relations and were followers of 
Arius, i.e. homoian Christians.

In this list were several lists of books about the Goths, please read 
at least one of them.

Kind regards
               Andreas
Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
Tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
Fax 0043/142-77/92-72


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