Ulfilas
Americannoun
noun
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This could not have been later than the year 381, because, according to the same Auxentius, Ulfilas had been bishop for forty years, and, according to Philostorgius, he had been consecrated by Eusebius.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Beside his work on the Beowulf, this scholar was to become prominent as editor of the Heliand and of Ulfilas, and as one of the staff appointed to complete Grimm’s Dictionary.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
The Gothic language died out in the ninth century, and after the extinction of the great Gothic empires, the translation of Ulfilas was lost and forgotten.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
A Christian boy in Asia Minor, while straying on the shores of the Mediterranean, was captured by some Goths, who took their fair-haired prize home to their own land, and named him Ulfilas.
From A Short History of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele
In order to carry on his work, Ulfilas translated a great part of the Bible into Gothic, using the Greek letters to represent the sounds.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
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