Apart from the Germania of Tacitus, Jordanes´s History of the Goths is the preeminent source for Germanic history. Many opinions of nowadays scholars are based on his accounts. Of the utmost significance are the effects in the field of onomastics. In the end the idea developed by R. Much that the names of various Germanic tribes are nicknames can be tracked down to Jordanes´s explanation of the name Gepids. In a similar way modern scholarship took his narrative of the migrations of the Goths as a veracious description of remote realities in the past, Christensen's book unsettles the prevailing opinion of early Gothic history. This essay deals with the consequences of these findings on onomastics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:31445 |
| Date | 03 September 2018 |
| Creators | Springer, Matthias |
| Publisher | Gesellschaft für Namenkunde e.V., Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 0943-0849, urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-210608, qucosa:21060 |
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