Warrior Class

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> Another possibility would be to invent a Gothic *aihva-raida-manna to
> match Old English 'éoredmann'. I'm thinking of Tom Shippey's comments
> in The Road to Middle Earth about the survival in Old English of this
> old word 'éored' for cavalry in spite of the lack of such a fighting
> force among the Anglo-Saxons, perhaps harking back to traditions of
> cavalry warefare as practiced by the Goths. But that's a bit of a
> mouthful...

>From what I see in Köbler I can't determine whether it was *aihvaraida 
F.-o or *aihva-raiþ N.-a or maybe something else? A good illustration 
of what you said in "The Principles..."

"Aihvamer, nim aihvaraida þeina du hleidumein..." (c)

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