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

[halsteis@pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l]]

Hi.
Modern technology make it possible to find previous writing on reused
parchment. However the cost reduce the number of manuscripts which this
technology is applied to. Unfortunately I can't remember what the
technology is called.

Halstein.

> 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.
>


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