Name of the Goths

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi Dirk,

Could you demonstrate a big flowing stream that explains the island
name of Gutland/Gotland or Eastern Gautland?

Best
Ingemar


> > > Thus, the place name Gutinge (Göttingen) refers to ' the place of
> > the people at the stream of water'. In fact, some sources even refer
> > to a Saxon 'sub-tribe' as the Gudinge from the same area. The name 
> of
> > the Goths has clearly the same linguistic roots and it may have had 
> > the same development, only that usually the more sophisticated 
> > interpretation of 'giessen', i.e. to pour or flow is employed to 
> > arrive at  the meaning of 'the once who were created by the flow of 
> > semen from a god'. 








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