Re: Jordanes

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>
> Am 07.11.2010 12:17, schrieb Torsten:
> - CIL 6, 2408. I 8: Ant. Diurdanus; 6, 3451: Aur.
> > Diurdanus.'
> >
> > I propose Diurdanus = Jordanes (perhaps he or whoever chose that
> > particular form for its Biblical connotations). That would mean
> > that his name was Thracian/Dacian/Getic(?), and that that was
> > his ethnic background. That might explain why he wanted to get
> > the Getae into a story of the Goths.
> >
> > BTW, AFAIK, secretary was not a job for a free man. Jordanes
> > might have been a freedman.
>
> how his ethnic background was getic when his descendende/liniage on
> his father side is Gothic?

He doesn't say so.

> (the names he evoques as father and grand-father are Germanic, not
> Dacian.)

The names Amuth and Paria have nothing specifically Germanic about them. In fact his father's name, Paria, can't be Germanic (because of the initial p-).

> As for the name Jordanes, maybe he took a christian name which was
> appropiate to the Dacian *Durdanus,

Diurdanus (ie. Djurdanus)

> this appears to be workable hypothesis but why should have a Goth a
> Dacian name ?

Who says he's a Goth?

> P.S.
> -it can be that even the well known "Dardanus" is too a reflex of
> Durdanes

Diurdanus

> and shouldn't be treated separately off this group of names.
>

Detschew divides that name as *dard- plus endíng and lists forms with other endings.


Torsten