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Gill's self-professed love of Goth culture was the topic of media interest, and it was widely reported that the word "Goth", in Gill's writings, was a reference to the alternative industrial and goth subculture rather than a reference to gothic rock music. [109]
The Gothic evacuation across the Danube was probably not spontaneous, but rather a carefully planned operation initiated after long debate among leading members of the community. [172] Upon arrival, the Goths were to be disarmed according to their agreement with the Romans, although many of them still managed to keep their arms. [171]
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 ...
People who goth out at job interviews can risk being passed over for a job because of misconceptions about the subculture, she said. “First impressions are everything and you don’t want to ...
A more specific theory about the word Gautigoths is that it means the Goths who live near the river Gaut, [5] today's Göta älv (Old Norse: Gautelfr). [8] It might also have been a conflation of the word Gauti with a gloss of Goths. [9] In the 17th century the name Göta älv, 'River of the Geats', replaced the earlier names Götälven and ...
Jordanes even specified that the Gothic order of "capillati" or long-haired men, was instituted by this Dicineus, and that the laws he made for the Goths were still in existence in his time. [20] Finally, Jordanes says the Goths moved back east to the region north of the Black Sea ("Pontus").
The language spoke[n] in the Peninsula Crimea, or Taurica Chersonesus, in Asia, still retains many German words, brought thither, as is suppos'd by a colony of Goths, who went to settle there about 850 years after the Deluge. The late Mr. Busbeq, who had been Imperial Ambassador at the Ottoman Port, collected and publish'd a great number of ...
The name of the Goths themselves is presumably related and means "those who libate", and guþ "idol" is the object of the act of libation. [citation needed] The words for "to sacrifice" and for "sacrificer" were blotan and blostreis, which were used in Biblical Gothic in the sense of "Christian worship" and "Christian priest". [citation needed]