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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote: --
There are Goths and there are Goths. Â Here's a bit from L. Sprague de Camp's 1939 novel _Lest Darkness Fall_, a time-travel tale about a one-way trip by an American archaeologist back to fifth-century Rome. Â He's talking to the Princess Mathaswentha, whom Norman may remember, during the run-up to Justinian's conquest of Italy:
"At the present rate, God knows when I'll get time for anything but war and politics, neither of which is my proper trade."Â
("True", that is.) Here's a wonderful trace of the Germanic migrations from Icelandic saga. Â In the _Saga of King Heidrek the Wise_, after the king's death, one of the characters quotes an ancient poem:
The pike has paid / by the pools of Grafa For the death of Heidrek / under Harvath-fells.
Now what are Harvath-fells? Â The cliffs of the Harvath mountains, certainly; but where are they? Â The saga writer didn't know, nor most probably did the poet. Â But we moderns do. Â When we run Grimm's Law (which relates the Germanic languages to their Indo-European relatives) backwards on "Harvath", we get "Karpat", the Carpathians, most of Europe away from Iceland.
And/or FtanML. Â I'd be interested to know how your aesthetic sense reacts to that (modulo the |...| for rich text), Uche.
GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures
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