Some Gothic names

[ualarauans]

Hi, Le!


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Le Bateman" <LeBateman at ...> wrote:
>
>   Does anyone know if the Goths had god names they used as 
personal names? 
> The Cotton Ms Domitian A., VII fols 15 ff lists Baldhelm and 
inguburg and 
> iurminburg,  siguulf as well. Did the Goths have names like this. 
The 
> reference is from  Henry Sweet's A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader p. 
108  This 
> Northumbrian was from the First half of the 9th century. Baelduald 
is also 
> used. So Did the Goths have these god names? One name I almost 
forgot was 
> Balthere.
> Le
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...>
> To: <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:14 AM
> Subject: [gothic-l] Boz = Bus < *Baus?
> 

I'm not sure I absolutely understood what you mean with "god names". 
If you're referring to complex names containing a theonym attested 
in other Germanic areas, then Baldhelm and Baelduald (OE, right?) 
may rather have the adjective PG *balthaz "brave" (Go. balths, OE 
beald, ON ballr etc) as the first element than a name that would 
correspond to ON Baldr. You know the Visigoths had their royal 
dynasty named that way (Jordanes' Balthi, Get. 42), the name, unlike 
Amali, being quite transparent in that time (ob audacia uirtutis 
Baltha, id est audax..., Get. 146-7). The Gothic form was probably 
*Baltha M. -an, pl. *Balthans. But it's not clear (?) whether the 
Balthi were credited with a divine genealogy as were their 
Ostrogothic colleagues. The spread of the element in personal names 
of the rest of Germania may be explained to some extent as marching 
together with rumors of the glorious deeds of the Visigoths.
Does some later Germanic epic source mention Balthi in any way 
(maybe smth like *Bealdingas, *Baldunge or the like)?

Ualarauans






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