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Vandilians ar the Goths, the Gepidae, the Vandals, the
Burgundi, the Heruli, and the Kugii. At the beginning of
the Christian era their abodes wer between the Elbe and
the Vistula. The languages of these peples wer closely
related. The extant literary remains, however, except in
Gothic, ar very few, and these ar almost entirely proper
nouns.
NOTE 4. Concerning the Vandilians, cp. F. Wrede, 'Ueber die sprache
der Wandalen', Strassburg, 1886 (QF., 59), p. 3 et seq. ; F. Dahn, 'Ur-
geschichte der germ, und rom. volker', vol. I (Berlin 1881), p. 139 et
seq.; K. Much, 'Goten und Ingvaeonen (Beitr., 17, 178221).
(c) The Gothic or Vandilian group of tribes together
with the Scandinavians constitute the 'East Germanic'
division as opposed to the 'West Germanic' division which
embraces the remaining Germanic tribes.
NOTE 5. Concerning the division of the Germanic race into East Germanic
and West Germanic tribes, cp. H. Zimmer, 'Ostgermanisch and
Westgermanisch', in Zs. fda., 19, 393 et seq.; Beitr. 9, 546 et seq.;
of the Scandi-
Grundr., I, 362 et seq. ; concerning the seperate position
navian as compared with the Gothic, s. Noreen, 'altisl. gr. 2 ', 2, and
Grundr., I, 419 et seq.
221. SOURCES OF THE GOTHIC LANGUAGE.
WJe know the Gothic language from the fragments of
the biblical translation which is safely ascribed to bishop
Ulfilas (or, in Gothic spelling, Wulfila; cp. Bernhardt, Vul-
Wulfila
ffla, p. VII; Anz. fda., 14, 285; Grundr., II, 67 4
).
was born in 310 and died at the end of 380 or erly in
381 after Christ. During the last 33 years of his life he
was bishop of that part of the West Goths which, when
persecuted by their heathen kinsmen, he led across the
Danube where they wer permitted by Constantius to setl
in Moesia (Moeso-Goths or Goti minores). The fragments
of the biblical version hav cum down to us in the follow-
ing manuscripts :
1. 'Codex Argenteus' at Upsala. It containd on 330
leavs the four gospels in the following order: Matthew,
John, Luke, Mark. Of these 330 leavs 187 ar extant. The
gospel of Lu. shows yunger forms of speech which differ in
many respects from the normal forms (cp. 7, n. 2 ; 14, n.
3; 56, n. 1; 62, n. 3; 67, n. 2: 74, n. 1; 105, n. 2; 204,