Re: More Gothic text
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 31, 2003, 14:50 |
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Adam Walker scripsit:
> German is my last resort for figuring out what's what.
Well, here's my favorite bit of Gothic, from L. Sprague deCamp's seminal
time travel/alternate universe novel _Lest Darkness Fall_. It's hopelessly
garbled in the printed version, and I had to reconstruct the underlying form
with the help of a Gothic dictionary, years ago:
Ho, frijond, habeis faurhtei! Allai skattjans sind waidedjans.
The second word is in the nominative rather than the vocative case, but I
have left this alone; de Camp documented this as an error on his part
rather than the publisher's part.
> PS what was the text?
2 Thessalonians 3.
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