Gothic Year/Season Words

[Le Bateman]

   Where could I look for the Gothic Bible online. If I can read Old English 
could I read Gothic? Did they have something similar to the Anglo-Saxon 
months Geol, Æfre Geol, Weodmonaþ, Thriemilcmonaþ etc...? There was also a 
Bloðmonaþ, Modorniht there were more. Some sources list a wulfmonaþ on the 
Saxon calander. I have not found any one who knows what that is. Perhaps 
they went on a wolf hunt.
Le
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "akoddsson" <konrad_oddsson at yahoo.com>
To: <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:12 AM
Subject: [gothic-l] Re: Gothic Year/Season Words


Thank you for the example (below), Francisc. This does settle the
matter. Goths count in winters ;)

Regards,
Konrad

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at ...>
wrote:
>
> But counting age in winters **is** attested in Wulfila's Bible:
"unte dauhtar ainoho was imma swe ** wintriwe twalibe **, jah so
swalt." "For he had one only daughter, about ** twelve years ** of
age, and she lay a dying." [Luke 8:42, in Codex Argenteus]
>
> Francisc
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "akoddsson" <konrad_oddsson@>
wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Phrases like 'X winters old' (counting age in winters/years) are
very typically Norse. Indeed, they seem to have been universal
there. One could likely reconstruct this for Gothic, as well, if
parallels are not already found in writing (Wulfila), in which case
we should look to these first.
>







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