*I don't mean "Goth" goths. We've got tons of those. I mean GOTH Goth goths.
*The Visigoths vanished into the rising tides of French, Spanish and Moslem peoples, but in the distant Crimea, in the crumbling Ottoman empire, there somehow persisted a tiny shred of Gothic-speaking no kidding Gothic Goths. There's nothing left of them now but a letter. A letter written by a Belgian guy.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/gotol-10-R.html
*I wonder if there's anything more Gothic, more totally Edgar Allen Poe House of Usher, than having your entire Rome-sacking, earth-shaking enterprise reduced to a single letter.
*It's quite a letter (quoted in full on the website there). The author comments on the Gothic fondness for raw horsemeat. He also records a little Gothic song he heard, which nobody has ever been able to understand. Here it is:
"Wara wara ingdolou
Seu te gira Galtzou
Hoemisclep dorbiza ea."
*Rock out, Goths.
