Ulfilas
Americannoun
noun
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The author of the Acts of Nicetas speaks of Ulfilas as present at the Council of Nicæa, in company with Theophilus.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
The Gothic of the fourth century, preserved in the translation of the Bible by Ulfilas, is not, as has been so often said, the mother both of High and Low German.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
Philostorgius was himself a Cappadocian, and there is no reason to doubt this statement of his on the parentage of Ulfilas.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Theophilus, it is true, signed his name as a Gothic bishop at that council, but there is nothing to confirm the statement that Ulfilas, then fourteen years of age, was with Theophilus.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
The Goths had no alphabet, so Ulfilas invented one, and then translated the Bible into their rude speech.
From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt
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