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  • And therefore it is from our governesses that we learn (with dimmer knowledge of mysterious persons or things "Ulfilas" -- "Tacitus's Germania," supposed by me to have been a lady, his daughter perhaps, and the "seven stars" of German literature) a certain natural affinity with the Germany of humbler and greater days, when no one talked of Teuton superiority or of purity of Teuton idiom; the Germany which gave Kant, and Beethoven, and

    Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895

  • I've always thought it was a hoot that Ulfilas left the Book of Kings out of his Gothic translation, on the premise that the Goths didn't need to hear more about hacking & hewing.

    Land of Angels, by Fay Sampson. Book review Carla 2007

  • Ulfilas (311–81), a Gothic bishop of Arian convictions, invented the Gothic alphabet for his translation of the Bible.

    2. The Visigoths 2001

  • For the next thirty years and more, Ulfilas worked on in his vineyard.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Men sat cross-legged near the coals, save for Ulfilas and me.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • While Tharasmund and I were among the Visigoths, we'd met Ulfilas.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • When at last the Wanderer got leave to enter the Empire and crossed the Danube into Moesia, again he lingered among Christian Goths, Ulfilas 'settlement, and encouraged Alawin to make friends here too.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Ulfilas 'fervor burned at him: "Then you will not fear to debate."

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • Wanting to encounter Ulfilas informally, I'd laid out the route of my party to intercept that of his as we both traveled through what the Romans had known as Dacia before they withdrew from it, and I in my day knew as Rumania.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • In making his version Ulfilas, who was himself a converted

    Early European History Hutton Webster

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