The Roman and the Teuton

The Roman and the Teuton

The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of CambridgeIf I...
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The Roman and the Teuton

The Roman and the Teuton

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The Roman and the Teuton

$107.12 $53.53
Author: Kingsley, Charles,1819-1875
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

If I have followed in these lectures the better known and more widely received etymology of the name Goth, I have done so out of no disrespect to Dr. Latham; but simply because his theory seems to me adhuc sub judice. It is this, as far as I understand it. That Goth was not the aboriginal name of the race. That they were probably not so called till they came into the land of the Get, about the mouths of the Danube. That the Teutonic name for the Ostrogoths was Grutungs, and that of the Visigoths (which he does not consider to mean West-Goths) Thervings, Thringer. That on reaching the land of the Get they took their name; just as the Kentings of Anglo-Saxon England took name from the Keltic country of Kent; and that the names Goth, Gothones, Gothini were originally given to Lithuanians by their Sclavonic neighbours. I merely state the theory, and leave it for the judgment of others. The principal points which Dr. Latham considers himself to have established, are That the area and population of the Teutonic tribes have been, on the authority of Tacitus, much overrated; many tribes hitherto supposed to be Teutonic being really Sclavonic, &c. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 3821
Author: Kingsley, Charles
Release Date: Mar 1, 2003
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900

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