Gaut's Descendants: Gothic Religion and Culture in Germania
Gaut's Descendants: Gothic Religion and Culture in Germania

Author: Aelfric Avery

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781329929852

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Gaut's Descendants: Gothic Religion and Culture in Germania explores the religion and culture of the Goths and the Gothic influence on other Germanic tribes. Some of the topics examined include: the gods and goddesses of the Goths; the rituals and magic of the Goths; Gaut, the founding father god of the Goths, his surviving myths and his cult of sacral kingship; the various influences that contributed to the synthesis of Gothic religion and culture; the nature of Gothic Christianity and survivals of Gothic heathenry in Christian times; how the Migration Age layer of Germanic mythology differed from the more well-known Viking Age layer of Germanic mythology; how the Goths contributed to Germanic mystical and religious concepts preserved in the Eddas such as the differences between the Aesir and Vanir gods; the substantial influence of the Goths on the legend and poetry of the rest of the Germanic world, especially in Viking Age Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England.

The Well Spring of the Goths
The Well Spring of the Goths

Author: Ingemar Nordgren

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0595336485

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The Goths-a rumored people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland-was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it has been generally assumed the Goths originated in Scandinavia but during the 20th c. many scholars have grown skeptical. The author has, using both Classical and Nordic sources and supplementary sciences, made probable there is an intimate connection between the Goths and the Nordic countries. Consequently it is quite possible that at least part of the Goths have a Nordic origin. The book rests on the basic hypothesis that the Goths are not a people but a number of tribes and peoples united through a common religious/cultic origin. The old dispute concerning the relationship between Svear and Gautar also gets quite a new meaning. The book is interdisciplinary and embraces history, religion, arts, linguistics and archaeology. In 1999 Ingemar Nordgren received his Ph.D. at Odense University, Denmark The book builds to a considerable extent on his dissertation but has been updated and partly rewritten with brand new material.

Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions
Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

Author: Tineke Looijenga

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9789004123960

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This source publication of all older runic inscriptions provides fascinating information about the origin and development of runic writing, together with the archaeological and historical contexts of the objects. Moreover elaborate readings and interpretations are given of the runic texts.

The Indo-European Controversy
The Indo-European Controversy

Author: Asya Pereltsvaig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1107054532

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This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

History of the Goths
History of the Goths

Author: Herwig Wolfram

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780520069831

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Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature (Classic Reprint)
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature (Classic Reprint)

Author: W. P. KER

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780266919407

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Excerpt from Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature These essays are intended as a general description of some of the principal forms of narrative literature in the Middle Ages, and as a review Of some of the more interesting works in each period. It is hardly necessary to say that the conclusion is one in which nothing is concluded, and that whole tracts of literature have been barely touched on - the English metrical romances, the Middle High German poems, the ballads, Northern and Southern - which would require to be considered in any systematic treatment of this part of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.