Skeireins

The Skeireins (Gothic: ๐ƒ๐Œบ๐Œด๐Œน๐‚๐Œด๐Œน๐Œฝ๐ƒ; pronounced [หˆskiหriหns]) 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. The manuscript containing the Skeireins text is a palimpsest.

Codex Vaticanus latinus, 5750, part of "Skeireins", a commentary to the Gospel of John in Gothic.

Currently it is housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. lat. 5750) in Rome.

There are conflicting views on whether the Skeireins was written directly in Gothic by a native speaker or whether it was a translation from a Greek original. Schรคferdiek (1981)[1] observes striking similarities between the Gothic of the Skeireins and the Greek of Theodore of Heraclea's commentary on the Gospel of John.

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References

  1. Schรคferdiek, Knut (1981). โ€˜Die Fragmente der โ€œSkeireinsโ€ und der Johanneskommentar des Theodor von Herakleiaโ€™, Zeitschrift fรผr deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur 110: 175โ€“93.
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