Hundreds of visigothic slate stones (whiteboards) in Western Castilla (Spain

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Greetings dear Visigothic friend 'ertydfh'!

Thank you for your solid information about the Salamanca region and the Visigothic artefacts. I was in 1992  travelling round in Spain studying Visigohtic  stone art. Speciall I visited lapidaria in Léonand otherplaces in Asturia and also Merida, Braga in Portugal, Toledo and Tarragona. I also  studied the Vadenensian celtic  stelae. Of course also some  Visigothic  chapels  like in Braga. Two years ago I was in cooperation with prof. Gisela Ripoll in Barcelona studying  Visigothic sites in Catalonia. I would gladly later visit your artea and I knew already earlier that it was heavy with stuff. Concerning the Agotes I can mention that I have written of them 2008 and 2011 in my Swedish book Goterkällan, the two revised revised editions. The English version of the book, The Well Spring of the Goths in 2004, was too early since then I had no idea of Agotes but I have treated the Visigothic Spain.
I am glad you treat some general historical Gothic topics so the list can contain something else but only lingustics. Thank you for that. I hope we can meet some time.

Best wishes

Ingemar

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ertydfh110" <ertydfh110 at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello to all,
> 
> I´m from Salamanca in Spain. Although not enough studied, it is one of the places that probably has more visigothic remains in all Spain. 
> 
> I first show you a map where most visigoths established in Spain:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/190/visigodos2.jpg/
> 
> Then I show a map of the province of Salamanca where you can see many visigothic remains (villages, necropolis, coinds, stones) in this province:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/visigodossalamanca.jpg/
> 
> That is as an introduction. What got me in this list, is that 3 kms away from the village where all my ancestors come, there are ruins of an old village which is supposed to be celtic and/or visigoth. 
> 
> This is a picture of it:
> 
> The issue about this place is that in this place there have been found several hundred of visigothic slate stones. Most of them have numbers written in them and are supposed to be about accounting (buy or sell of animals for example). But some of them have something non-numeric written in them.
> 
> For example this one:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/piedravisigoda.jpg/
> 
> Could you please take a look and see if there is something written in Gothic?. 
> 
> I also send you a picture taken by me in a close museum with some of the stones:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/696/visigothicwhiteboard.jpg/
> 
> Thanks.
>


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