Re: [tied] Bring back the real Piotr!

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 15874
Date: 2002-10-02

Steve, the ancient texts confused them as well, for precisely the same reason that modern amateurs do. It is only today, with the tools of comparative linguistics and our knowledge of the _local_ North European sources (such as Old English texts and the Old Norse sagas) that we are able to clear the confusion. I repeat: nobody who knew anything about the local affairs called the Gauts "Guts", "Goths" or "Jutes". Fellow Scandinavians called them <Gautar> and nothing else. Old English texts distinguish the Gotan (sg. Gota) 'Goths' from the Ge:atas (sg. Ge:at) 'Geats' with 100% consistency. These names are not a distortions of each other but phonologically regular reflexes of *gut-o:n- and *gaut-a-.
 
Piotr
 
 
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But wait!! according to Piotr, the "ancient sources" had them all correct and
straight !!!!  Obviously, they were professional linguists (who probably
never heard the words spoken by Germanic speakers) who had the modern day
linguistic advantage over 19th-century Anglo-Saxonists and could mysteriously
tell the difference between Gutes, Gauts, Geats, Jutes, Goths, Gountoi,
Gutones, Gothones, Gotones, Gutae, Gountigots, etc., even though they were a
thousand miles away and speaking some very different languages.

Piotr, you are doing what the Atlanteans do.  You are just doing it with a
more arcane mysticism to get at your results.  The ancient text tell all! You
just have to have the magical knowledge to read them. <snip, snip, snip>