07-07-2005, 09:18 AM
Ah, it's for a novel!
I think I can get most of Kortlandt's reference works in the nearby Utrecht University Library, but much of it is in German...is that a problem?
Might Manczak's articles be useful? I could look them up and copy them... 8) (almost all of the publications are present in Utrecht) though right now I don't have much time for that...
Ah, btw, one of the books quoted by Kortlandt is Dennis Howard Green's "Language and history in the early Germanic world" (look here: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/c ... 0521794234 ).
It's available through Amazon, has a chapter on the goths, and doesn't cost and arm and a leg...(£21).
Another recent book is Ingemar Nordgren's "The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic Peoples in the Nordic Countries and on the Continent. Based on his PhD thesis, about the same price as Green's book and even available as an E-book for a paltry $6 here:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/059578450X
Couldn't find a review, but I suspect it makes a (partly corrective?) case for re-establishing some sort of Scandinavian link for the Goths.
I assume you're also aware of Peter Heather's "The Goths"?
Valete,
Chariovalda
I think I can get most of Kortlandt's reference works in the nearby Utrecht University Library, but much of it is in German...is that a problem?
Might Manczak's articles be useful? I could look them up and copy them... 8) (almost all of the publications are present in Utrecht) though right now I don't have much time for that...
Ah, btw, one of the books quoted by Kortlandt is Dennis Howard Green's "Language and history in the early Germanic world" (look here: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/c ... 0521794234 ).
It's available through Amazon, has a chapter on the goths, and doesn't cost and arm and a leg...(£21).
Another recent book is Ingemar Nordgren's "The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic Peoples in the Nordic Countries and on the Continent. Based on his PhD thesis, about the same price as Green's book and even available as an E-book for a paltry $6 here:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/059578450X
Couldn't find a review, but I suspect it makes a (partly corrective?) case for re-establishing some sort of Scandinavian link for the Goths.
I assume you're also aware of Peter Heather's "The Goths"?
Valete,
Chariovalda
Andreas Baede