Drus Griutinge (Balamber)

[llama_nom]

Excellent stuff!  I look forward to reading more...  I'm sure the
poet's Ostrogothic brethren sitting in Attila's tent would be equally
moved to hear such magnificently doom-laden lines drifting across from
the campfires opposite.

Leikaiþ mis in liuþa,
sweþauh ei, lagg ni ist,
sangws salwaswinþs
sakjons jah runo.

"I like the verse, even if it's short, darkly powerful music of strife
and mystery."




--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> - In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> >
> > Bal¬ðs Balambair
> > mi¬ð seinaim brandam qam;
> >
> > That genitive, Balambairis, must have crept in from an earlier
> > version.  Still contemplating Walhamers; I'm sticking with this for
> > now as it just sounds fiercer!
> 
> Several years ago I made up a stanza about Balamber, both in Gothic 
> and in Latin. I presupposed that he was in truth 
> Walamers ¡°slain/famous¡±, a noble Goth of the Amal blood who 
> practiced ¡°dark arts¡± and was therefore banished together with his 
> female kin (haljarunos), aligned himself with the coming Huns 
> showing them the way into Gut¬ðiuda and took his revenge. He was 
> somehow connected (re-incarnated? or un-dead?) with Uualamir who led 
> the Ostrogoths as Hunnish subjects to battle on Catalaunic fields on 
> Attila¡¯s side, ¨ú century later. This short versiculus of which I 
> recalled in the course of our discussion can in no way compete with 
> Llama¡¯s magnificent work, it has a very strange rhyme (something 
> between alliterative and mediaeval Latin meters, or, better to say, 
> between them as I imagined them to be), it (its author) doesn¡¯t know 
> wight about alliteration types or syllable quantities etc. You may 
> see it below, just to feel the contrast.
> 
> Jains ist sa airiza Amale ¬ðiudans
> Lubjaleis listeigs, ludjai usgaisjands
> Hairus sa hardista in handau Attilins
> Hari nu tiuhi¬ð, triggws ai¬ða seinamma
> 
> Olim is erat rex Amalorum
> Ueneficus callidus, facie terrens
> Ensis durissimus in Attilae manu
> Exercitum ducit uoto fidelis
> 
> ¡°He was once a king of Amal blood,
> [Now he¡¯s] a treacherous wizard, his face is dreadful.
> [He is] the sword most hard (cruel) in Attila¡¯s hand.
> Now he leads his army in fulfillment of his oath.¡±
> 
> Maybe it could come from a Visigoth who was fighting on another 
> side? I guess you know the source of inspiration for this...
> 
> Ualarauans
>


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