Re: [tied] Vanir

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> "Hermanaricus nobilissimus Amalorum in regno
> successit, qui multas et bellicosissimas arctoi
> gentes perdomuit suisque parere legibus fecit. quem
> merito nonnulli Alexandro Magno conparavere maiores,
> habebat si quidem quos domuerat Golthescytha Thiudos
> Inaunxis Vasinabroncas Merens Mordens Imniscaris
> Rogas Tadzans Athaul Navego Bubegenas Coldas." (Get.
> XXIII).
>
> The attested Gothic word for "shield" is <skildus>,
> a u-stem like <skythus>. Whether *gultha-skildjus
> could have been folk-etymologised as
> *gultha-skythjus (Latinised as Golthescythae) is
> anybody's guess; I've seen stranger things happen. I
> wish we knew Cassiodorus' version of the name. Some
> of the names in Jordanes's register are probably
> corrupt, which is not surprising given the
> second-hand nature of the data. I am tempted to read
> <Imniscaris> as misspelt <*in Miscaris>, so that
> <Merens Mordens Imniscaris> could be "..., the Mari,
> the Mordvin in the Meshchera Lowlands, ...".
>
> Piotr

*****GK: Given this possibility, other tempting
questions arise: (1)would <*in Aunxis> make any sense?
(2)would "Vas <*in Abroncas>"?=== Any possible Gothic
misspellings here?*****

>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sergejus Tarasovas
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Vanir
>
>
> Please don't shoot me down for that speculation, but
> is there any probability <golthescytha> is a
> corruption (under the influence of ancient
> "Scythian" tradition) of something like
> **golthescilda (*gul�a-skildus)?
>

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