The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . ^ ^n !h 5^ [Si5^[Hi.^ j^iji) (]i)(gfl. A PAGE OF THE GOTHIC GOSPELS. {Codex Argenieus.) Mark vii. 3-7. WULFILAS NkW ALPHABET. 01 Before, however, Wulfila could give his countrymenthe Bible, he had to teach them to read, and, in fact,to reduce their language to a written form. It is truethat, as we have already said, the Goths had alreadyan alphabet of their own. But Wulfila probablythought that the Runic alphabet was better forgotten,because of the heathenish things that were written init; at all events he chose to
The Goths, from the earliest times to the end of the Gothic dominion in Spain . ^ ^n !h 5^ [Si5^[Hi.^ j^iji) (]i)(gfl. A PAGE OF THE GOTHIC GOSPELS. {Codex Argenieus.) Mark vii. 3-7. WULFILAS NkW ALPHABET. 01 Before, however, Wulfila could give his countrymenthe Bible, he had to teach them to read, and, in fact,to reduce their language to a written form. It is truethat, as we have already said, the Goths had alreadyan alphabet of their own. But Wulfila probablythought that the Runic alphabet was better forgotten,because of the heathenish things that were written init; at all events he chose to write his Gothic Biblein Greek letters—large capitals, such as were com-monly used in books at that time. There were,however, some Gothic sounds which could not becorrectly expressed by means of the Greek alphabet,and for these Wulfila adopted the Runic characters,altering their shapes, however, so as to give them asfar as possible the general appearance of Greek earliest manuscripts of the Gothic Bible werewritten about 150 years after Wulfilas time, andprobably the forms of the letters had before
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