Etruscan Inscriptions Analysed, Translated and Commented Upon

ISBN: 9781332054428 出版年：2016 页码：335 Alexander Lindsay Crawford Forgotten Books

This volume was written and prepared for the press with a view to private circulation, and in the hope that others more competent than myself would take up the subject and work it out. My object was not (properly speaking) to give an accurate interpreta tion of the Etruscan inscriptions, but to shew that the language employed in those inscriptions was an ancient form of German, in corroboration of an argu ment derived from independent sources to prove that the Etruscans were a branch of the Teutonic race. My reason for publishing it is this, that in a work which I am about to issue on a much more important subject I have employed the ancient German as an instrument of etymological and mythological com parison and analysis in a manner which can only be justified by adduction of proof that the language stands upon a par in point of antiquity and impor tance with Greek and Latin, Zendic and Sanscrit, and that its written, or rather engraved monuments are centuries older than the Gospels of Ulphilas. Such proof is, I trust, afforded by the contents of the ensuing pages.