[gothic-l] Re: is Gothic the language of one or a few men?

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

When I was reading books in Google Books on the internet when I was looking
for possibilities of other Gothic manuscripts, I found this book about an
ancient Gothic author which claimed that there were in fact dozens of books
written in Gothic, even in Gothic runes, but they were almost all destroyed
with christianity as a reason, also, it is claimed that there were a lot of
books in Wulfilan Gothic, but they ended up as manuscripts which were used
to overwrite with Latin, of which we found just a few like the Codex
Boloniensia, or paper to make bookbindings, this means that if we would
seperate parts of some medieval books, there is a certain chance that we
would find some Gothic writing inside, but of course, no academic wants
existing medieval manuscripts to be destructed, so chance is very small
that we will ever find those.



2015-02-11 22:59 GMT+01:00 write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> I have a question about "gais" and "ges": do you mean there were instances
> of Gothic names with "ges" in them? I know Vandalic names often had "ges"
> (misspelling for "geis"), but I've never come across a Gothic one, though
> maybe I don't know many Gothic names. It's entirely possible that the
> Gothic language was split into dialects; again, the personal names found
> amongst the Vandals are significantly, but not dramatically, different from
> their supposed equivalents in Gothic; we see "eils" as compared to "hails",
> etc. Wulfila's Gothic was probably a literary standard (which wasn't so
> standard in that Wulfila jumps from spellings like "goþs" to "gods", but I
> blame pronunciation).
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