The origin of the Goths
- Witold Ma´nczak has argued that Gothic is closer to Upper German than to Middle German, closer to High German than to Low German, closer to German than to Scandinavian, closer to Danish than to Swedish, and that the original homeland of the Goths must therefore be located in the southernmost part of the Germanic territories, not in Scandinavia (1982, 1984, 1987a, 1987b, 1992). I think that his argument is correct and that it is time to abandon Iordanes’ classic view that the Goths came from Scandinavia. We must therefore reconsider the grounds for adopting the latter position and the reasons why it always has remained popular.
| Author: | Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156632 |
| URL: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/07 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/07 |
| GND Keyword: | Indogermanische Sprachen |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 4 |
| Note: | Postprint, Korrigierte Version, zuerst in: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 55.2001, S. 21-25 |
| Source: | http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf ; (in:) Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 55, 2001, S. 21-25 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 261321404 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
