09-21-2012, 03:46 AM
Two quibbles:
1. Vandals and Goths aren't Germans. Or are Danes and Englishfolk Germans?
2. East Germanic and West Germanic religious vocabulary are a bit different. Wulfila chose weihs instead of hailags to avoid the military connotations of hailags. Saxon and Frankish writers chose heilag. D.H. Green discusses this at length in Language and Hitory in the Early Germanic World. I think East Germanic and West Germanic conversion came under different circumstances and at different stages in the development of Christianity. I don't think the Gothic refugees were particularly warlike, not in the first generation. I think the Roman Empire pushed them too far.
1. Vandals and Goths aren't Germans. Or are Danes and Englishfolk Germans?
2. East Germanic and West Germanic religious vocabulary are a bit different. Wulfila chose weihs instead of hailags to avoid the military connotations of hailags. Saxon and Frankish writers chose heilag. D.H. Green discusses this at length in Language and Hitory in the Early Germanic World. I think East Germanic and West Germanic conversion came under different circumstances and at different stages in the development of Christianity. I don't think the Gothic refugees were particularly warlike, not in the first generation. I think the Roman Empire pushed them too far.
