construction of gothic scandinavian urheimat

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi,
I can recommed Anders Kaliff's book Gothis connections

http://www.stavgard.com/romaniron/goterna_/gothic/default.htm

Tore

2 maj 2008 kl. 11.51 skrev Michal Cigan:

> Hi,
> some times (maybe year/s) ago i saw a piece on this board
> treating of (or better linking to) the theory, that Goths
> did not came from Scandinavia, but rather they - or their
> group identity - were established only later and on another place;  
> from germanic tribes living beside roman limes (if I remember  
> correct the topic of the piece). Could someone remind me the source  
> of this theory; book, or maybe make correct this my opinion, if my  
> flashback is more or less wrong...
>
> Michal
>
> Fredrik <gadrauhts at hotmail.com> wrote: Hi all. I hope that there  
> still are a few fellows here so this isn't
> totalt in vain.
>
> I though about words for civilization and verbs to describe it, like
> civilize.
>
> After I thought a while I came up with an idea which was based on the
> word un-mana-riggws which means smth like fierce, cruel, barbaric and
> took the oposite word mana-riggws to mean civilized, (mostly an
> oposite meaning of barbaric). As noun I used mana-riggwitha (sf). I'd
> like to know what riggws is and what it mean.
>
> Later I found out that I already translated the word 'civilized' but
> forgot about it. At that earlier time I used uf-hausjands as the
> meaning 'behaved'.
>
> I also think there's a connection between the words civilization and
> culture, both coz civilized countries/people have a higher culture.
> And the icelandic word has a connection. Right now I can't tell for
> sure but if I remember correct civilization is siðmenning or smth
> like that and siða (a verb) means to bring up and menning (not sure
> if thats totally correct either) means culture, probably from a verb
> meaning 'to make a (behaved?) man of'
>
> Any ideas about this?
>
> What would the gothic word for the Cultural Revolution be?
>
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