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

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

Hello Halstein,

With that explanation, your name in Gothic would be hallustains (Gothic
hallus + stains).

Thanks for sharing more thoughts on the parchments. Would it help if we
would collect money to ask researchers to scan parchments from Spain? I
don't know though how much money is needed for 1 scan and we would want
more than 1 scan of course.

Roel

2015-02-14 14:58 GMT+01:00 halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

>
>
> 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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>
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