[gothic-l] Salzburg Annales / Codex Albiensis

[faltin2001]

Hi Francisc,

I think I may have confused the names of the sources. You were
clearly taking about the Salzburg Codex Albiensis, when you mentioned
the Salzburg manuscript, while I was refering to the Salzburg
Annales. The latter stated in 871AD that the Bavarian Mission
(Conversio Bagaoriorum et Carantanorum) encountered many Gepids still
living in Pannonia (De Gepidis autem quidam adhus ibi resident).
According to the chronicle the Bavarian missionaries came in frequent
contact with these Gepids and some converted Gepids even became
priests or monks in Bavaria. I think it is not unreasonable to assume
that these Gepids still spoke Gothic at the time.

Now, you were refering to the Codex Albiensis or Alcuin Codex, which
provided us with Gothic numerals and alphabets as well as old high
German phonetic remarks about the pronunciation of Gothic.

Click below for the passage:

http://germa.germsem.uni-kiel.de/gotisch/vindobonensis.html

I don't think that the Bavarian mission among the Gepids can have
been responsible for the recording of these Gothic lines. Instead,
this may have been a result of contacts with remnants of Gothic
churches in Moesia or may have resulted from the Gothic mission to
South Germany.

Cheers

Dirk













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