[gothic-l] The Eruli: The Germanic Etymology III

[Bertil Haggman]

"The currently accepted etymology of Eruli was advanced
in its essentials more than 150 years ago: both Aschbach and Zeuss
linked the name with Olc. jarl, OE eorl 'earl', and Zeuss added
that Icelandic, which should have yielded *jorl as the reflex of
*erul-, 'may have had a different vowel in the suffix'. Zeuss'
comment neatly foreshadowed the subsequent debate over the
extent to which the tribe name and jarl can be said to be 'the
same' word; when runic scholarship began in earnest in
in the second half of the nineteenth century, the runic word
erilaR was introduced into the discussion. (This word occurs
only in the first-person formula ek erilaR in the older futhark;
its meaning is uncertain. Here I will only mention its possible
etymological relationship to the name of the Eruli; the
historical connection between the Eruli and runic inscriptions is
a question with an extensive literature of its own, which will
be treated in a seperate essay.)"

Erulically

Bertil


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