[gothic-l] Re: Goths, Eruls and Scandinavian Southeast Europe Contacts

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Bertil Haggman" <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Einar,
>
> The evidence has been presented on the list for
> years both by linguists and historians. The inter-
> pretation of a number of runestones in Sweden
> and Norway have been that the word erilaR,
> which is relatively common on Scandinavian
> runestones, is taken to mean Eruli/Erul.


The word erila and irila appears 7 or 8 times on rune-stones and
other implements in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Its most likely
meaning is believed to be 'free man, or noble man'. Note it is also
present in such names like 'Erlwin', 'Erlfried' etc.. The name Eruli
may be linked to the 'erila' name in the sense that it may derive
from the same root and general meaning, but the inscriptions probably
don't refer to Heruls, but to the name or title of 'free man'. This
would also be underscored by the very wide geographical distribution
of the inscriptions.


Dirk


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