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

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

Hi.
One of the problems, is that one can't find out, until after one has
"scanned" them. So parchment from areas controlled by the Gothic Kingdoms,
and with the correct age, may contain Gothic writings. This make the work
hard, and expensive. Of course one also can find other interesting stuff.

> Hails Halstain (I gothify your name as halstains),
The "Hal" bit is for an old Norse word for a flat rock/stone, and the
"stein" means stone.

Halstein.
>
> Do you possibly know which documents can contain Gothic writings?
>
> Roel
>
>
> 2015-02-12 19:58 GMT+01:00 halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l] <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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