Re: More Gothic text

Now that one's more or less incomprehensible. Of course the number of boxes and
pseudo-Chinese characters make it rather more difficult even when I know that a
question mark is a thorn. But still as familiar as I am with Scripture a few
dozen garbled characters shouldn't make that much difference. It's the Germanic
effect. Any time I get one of those instruction books that's printed in several
languages, if there's no English or the English has been hopelessly garbled I
look first for Spanish or another logically-spelled Romance lang, second for
French, third for Chinese. German is my last resort for figuring out what's
what.

Adam
PS what was the text?
 John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:Here's another Gothic text to play with, also
biblical, but not nearly
so well known. Kudos to wulfila.org, who are making the Codex Argenteus
available in digital form. ?= capital thorn, ?= small thorn.

Þata anþar gabidjai?jah bi unsis, broþrjus, ei waurd fraujins þragjai jah
mikiljaidau, swaswe jah at izwis, jah ei uslausjaindau af gastojanaim jah
ubilaim mannam; ni auk ist allaim galaubeins. Aþþan triggws frauja saei
gatulgei?izwis jah galausjai izwis af þamma ubilin. Aþþan gatrauam in
fraujin in izwis, ei þatei anabudum izwis, jah tauji?jah taujan habai?
Ak frauja garaihtjai hairtona izwara in friaþwai gudis jah in usþulainai
Xristaus.

Aþþan anabiudam izwis, broþrjus, in namin fraujins unsaris Iesuis
Xristaus, ei gaskaidai?izwis af allamma broþre hvairbandane ungatassaba
jah ni bi anafilham þoei andnemu?at uns. [...] ist galeikon unsis,
unte ni ungatewidai wesum in izwis, silbans auk kunnu?hvaiwa skuld
ist galeikon unsis, unte ni ungatewidai wesum in izwis, ni arwjo hlaib
matidedum at hvamma, ak winnandans arbaidai naht jah daga waurkjandans,
ei ni kauridedeima hvana izwara. Ni þatei ni habaidedeima waldufni, ak
ei uns silbans du frisahtai gebeima izwis du galeikon unsis. Jah auk
þan wesum at izwis, þata izwis anabudum, ei jabai hvas ni wili waurkjan,
ni matjai.

Hausjam auk sumans hvairbandans in izwis ungatassaba, ni waiht
waurkjandans, ak fairweitjandans. Þaimuh swaleikaim anabiudam jah
bidjam in fraujin Iesua Xristau, ei mi?rimisa waurkjandans seinana
hlaib matjaina. Aþþan jus, broþrjus, ni wairþai?usgrudjans waila
taujandans. I?jabai hvas ni ufhausjai waurda unsaramma þairh þos
bokos, þana gatarhjai? ni blandai?izwis mi?imma, ei gaskamai sik.
Jah ni swaswe fijand ina rahnjai? ak talzjai?swe broþar.

Aþþan silba frauja gawairþeis gibai izwis gawairþi sinteino in allaim
stadim; frauja mi?allaim izwis. So goleins meinai handau Pawlaus, þatei
ist bandwo ana allaim aipistaulem meinaim; swa melja. Ansts fraujins
unsaris Iesuis Xristaus mi?allaim izwis. Amen.

--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_

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