Gothic
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Dictionaries
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- Notes: Includes the text of the Bible; definitions are accessed by clicking words, but they are in German.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: An older book, but useful; PDF download is 6.0 MB.
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Gothic/Greek/German Dictionary
- Format: PDF
- Notes: Many different formats—HTML, PDF, XML, etc. Part of the Wulfila project.
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Online Gothic-English Dictionary
- Notes: Also has Gothic-English.
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- Notes: Written in 1890. Not surprisingly, many works on Gothic are in German.
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- Notes: Again, written in German.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: A very large PDF file, but attention given to English.
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Different Version, Same Glossary
- Notes: I guess if your name is Balg, you have to study Gothic.
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- Notes: Again, it will help to know German. As in, you’ll need to know German in order to read this.
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Glossary of the Gothic Language
- Notes: German will also help here.
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Comparative Dictionary of Gothic
- Notes: Written in German.
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Etymology of the Gothic Language
- Notes: You guessed it, in German.
Grammars
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- Notes: Reference and lessons, coordinated with Bible passages; fairly comprehensive as well as technical in many parts.
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- Notes: In several formats. Though somewhat inconvenient to navigate, it is worth checking out.
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Gothic Grammar with Readings and Glossary
- Notes: Translated from the German.
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- Notes: The great Balg translated this one.
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- Notes: The original, in German.
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Another version of this grammar
- Notes: In German, again.
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- Notes: Same as the first Gothic grammar above.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: 17.1 MB PDF file; other filetype options available.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Navigate online and get the PDF.
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- Format: Video
- Notes: An introduction to the language.
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- Format: Video
- Notes: A series of video introductions to the language.
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- Notes: The companion site.
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- Notes: A nice intro to the language, with some grammar.
Charts & Aids
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Texts
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- Notes: Many passages available, with linked lexicon. A wonderful resource.
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- Notes: Scans of many old manuscripts.
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- Notes: More manuscript scans, easy to navigate.
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: From the Wulfila Project.
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- Notes: With Greek; some Latin text, and German.
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Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels
- Notes: In parallel columns.
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- Notes: Or, the extant monuments to the Gothic language.
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- Notes: With the Greek text.
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- Notes: With the Greek too, it appears.
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Gothic Latin Old and New Testaments
- Notes: Once again, all good books were written in Latin first.
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- Notes: Preface and front matter in English.
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- Notes: Published in 1882.
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- Notes: The Four Gospels in Gothic and Latin.
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- Notes: Various manuscripts, all online scans.
Other Resources
- Gothic on Wikipedia
- Notes: [in an old professor’s voice, bitter because his dissertation research took much longer than it would now] “You can’t cite it in a paper!”
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