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Some of the Gothic women, when carried away, became the Amazons and held the kingdoms of Asia for almost a year before returning to the Goths (VII). Third, for a very long period they lived in Moesia , Thrace and Dacia , areas found near the Lower Danube and Balkans, and bordering the Graeco-Roman world.
The Goths were Germanic-speaking. [218] The Gothic language is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation (the 4th century), [219] [175] and the only East Germanic language documented in more than proper names, short phrases that survived in historical accounts, and loan-words in other languages, making it a language of great interest ...
The Gothic language, known from their bible translation and fragmentary evidence, is the only clearly attested member of what modern linguists designate as the East Germanic language family, because it was already distinct from the two Germanic families that have survived today, West Germanic and North Germanic, which were originally ...
Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [ 4 ]
Many writers of the medieval texts that mention the Goths used the word Goths to mean any Germanic people in eastern Europe (such as the Varangians), many of whom certainly did not use the Gothic language as known from the Gothic Bible. Some writers even referred to Slavic-speaking people as "Goths". However, it is clear from Ulfilas's ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
The Gothic style of architecture was strongly influenced by the Romanesque architecture which preceded it. Why the Gothic style emerged from Romanesque, and what the key influences on its development were, is a difficult problem for which there is a lack of concrete evidence because medieval Gothic architecture was not accompanied by contemporary written theory, in contrast to the 'Renaissance ...
Though the etymology of the Gothic name connects to words for pouring, its actual meaning remains uncertain. [2] Various interpretations have been suggested: the pouring could refer to a river or a flooded homeland, the name could mean "people" in the sense of being "seed-spreaders" or "progenitors", or else refer to the name of an ancestor ...