[gothic-l] Re: The Language of the Goths

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., Stephen Mark Carey <smcarey at a...> wrote:
>
> > in a clearly defined and identified area of northern Poland and
> > nowhere else. BTW, even the latest Brockhaus entry on the Goths
has
> > now abandoned the old thesis of a Scandinavian origin of the
Goths.
> >
> > Dirk
>
>
> Where does the linguistic evidence fall in this regard. Is there a
heavy
> Gothic influence on Polish -- or are you dealing with "German"
areas of
> Poland -- how about gothic influence on Old Prussian -- or does your
> theory force one to reconsider whether the Gothic Language was
actually
> spoken by the "Goths"?


You have get a perspective for the timeframes we are talking about.
Poles or other Slavs were nowhere to be found in that area 2000 years
ago. Thus, Polish is of course not influenced by Gothic. Old
Prussians (Galindians, Natangians, Samians etc.) may have had contact
with remnents of East Germanic but I am not sure if an influence is
detectable. Germans arived in the area only in the 12th and 13th
century. Hence, there is no way that the German in that area was
influenced by Gothic; it was however strongly influenced by old
Prussian.


cheers,
Dirk








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