Rosomil, Rosmunda, Rosamunda (and Rosomoni)

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> 
wrote:
> >
> > His research of the Old Germanic color symbolism is interesting
> > ("red one" = "traitor", sen. McCarthy lässt grüssen), though one-
> > sided, to support his idea of the reddish gens infida. I'm sure
> > there are a lot of positive connotations as well. E.g. the red 
beard
> > of Thor.
> 
> Okay, some of the examples are a bit tenuous, but it's interesting
> that one of them is directly related to the man who betrayed
> Jörmunrekkr in an Old Norse version of the legend:
> 
> Jeg slutter altsaa: Efter det af Jordanes gjengivne gotiske Sagn 
hørte
> Ermanariks troløse Raadgiver, der i tydske Sagn kaldes Sibeche, 
Sifka,
> i det nordiske Bikke, til Stammen Rosomoni eller Rusmunans d. 
e. "de
> Rødlige" eller "de Fregnede". Men hertil passer den i Þiðrikssaga 
Kap.
> 186 givne Skildring af Sifkas Ydre paa en mærkelig Maade:
> 
> Sifca hans har er rautt som bloð eða rosa grasit oc karhofðaðr ( - 
éða
> þat gras er heitir rusalitter ok liðaðiz allt i lokka A). hans 
andlit
> er leost oc rauðfrecnottr (r -ott A B), oc biartan likama hævir 
hann
> oc allan fręknottan, rautt skegg heuir hann oc hælldr sitt o. 
s. v.

Incidentally, how will we reconstruct the name in Gothic - *Sibika 
M.-an (a shortform of a name with Sibja-?) or *Bikk(j)a? In the 
latter case a folk-etymological connection with "bitch" seems 
arguable. Was there anything like *bikkjusonr in ON?

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