Gothic writing Gothic writing The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum) is a collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, with the advice of his bishops and nobles, in the year 506, the twenty-second year of his reign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Breviary of Alaric"
The Codex Argenteus (or "Silver Bible") is a 6th century manuscript, originally containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of the bible into the Gothic language. Of the original 336 folia, 188 (including the Speyer fragment discovered in 1970) have been preserved, containing the translation of the greater part of the four gospels. A part of it is at permanent display at the Carolina Rediviva library in Uppsala, Sweden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Codex Argenteus"
The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed to Wulfila used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. Before its creation in the fourth century, Gothic was possibly written in runes. It was primarily used by Wulfilas to translate the Bible into Gothic. It appears to be derived from the Greek alphabet with some borrowings from the Latin one. The names clearly derive from the names of runes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gothic alphabet"
The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, * ...more on Wikipedia about "Gothic language"
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a fornaldarsaga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas. It is a valuable saga for several different reasons beside its literary qualities. It contains traditions of wars between Goths and Huns, from the 4th century, and it is also used as a source for Swedish medieval history. Moreover, it was an important source of inspiration for Tolkien when shaping his legends of Middle-earth. However, the saga may be most appreciated for its memorable imagery, or to quote Kershaw on the invasion of the Horde: ...more on Wikipedia about "Hervarar saga"
The Skeireins ( Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃) is the longest and most important monument of the Gothic language after Ulfilas' version of the Bible. It consists of eight fragments of a commentary on the Gospel of John which is commonly held to have originally extended over seventy-eight parchment leaves. It owes its title to the 19th-century German scholar Hans Ferdinand Massmann, who was the first to issue a comprehensive and correct edition of it: "Skeireins" means "explanation" in Gothic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Skeireins"
The Visigothic Code ( Latin, Forum Iudicum or Liber Judiciorum; Spanish, Fuero Juzgo) are a set of laws that the Visigoth king of Hispania, Reccesuinth (for which it is sometimes called the Code of Reccesuinth), that were enlarged by the novel legislation of Wamba, Erwig and Egica and codified in a legal body around AD 654. They are often called the Lex Visigothorum, laws of the Visigoths. The laws wer far-reaching and long in effect: in 10th-century Galicia, monastic charters make reference to the Code (Fletcher 1984, ch. 1, note 56) The laws govern and sanction family life and by extension political life—the marrying and the giving in marriage, the transmission of property to heirs, the safeguarding of the rights of widows and orphans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Visigothic Code"
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