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

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

Hi Roel,
I honestly don't know. My knowledge is based mainly on a couple of
newspaper-articles. Someone with connection to academe might be of help.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Only wanted this method brought to
attention, because it might give us more knowledge in the future.

Halstein.

> 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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