User:Ermenrich

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"De Libertate - Hryhorii Skovoroda

Что то за волность? добро в ней какое? Ины говорять, будто золотое. Ах! не златое: если сравнить злато Против волности, еще оно блато… О когда б же мнѣ в дурнѣ не пошитись! Дабы волности не могл как лишитись. Будь славен вовѣк, ω муже избранне, Вольности ωтче, Герою Богдане!"

I'm a PhD. in medieval German literature. I originally joined to improve Wikipedia's coverage of that area, but I've since branched out into other fields, such as biblical and ancient history, as well as a small amount of linguistics.

My user name is taken from the medieval German form of the name of the ancient Gothic ruler Ermanaric (whenever there is an edit on that article I'm often confused and wonder why people are editing my user page). I originally wanted to join as Dietrich von Bern but that name was taken, so I took the name of his arch-nemesis.

Wikipedia pages I've started or contributed to significantly
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Germanic legend/mythology

 * Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend created with lots and lots of help from Berig
 * Germanic heroic legend created from scratch with lots of help from Berig
 * Alpharts Tod
 * Biterolf und Dietleib
 * Brunhild completely rewrote and expanded
 * Dietrichs Flucht
 * Dietrich und Wenezlan
 * Eckenlied
 * Ermenrichs Tod
 * Germanic law
 * Germanic paganism
 * Germanic peoples
 * Goldemar
 * Gudrun completely rewrote and expanded
 * Gunther rewrote, expanding
 * Jüngeres Hildebrandslied significantly expanded
 * Kudrun expanded significantly
 * Laurin (poem)
 * Dietrich von Bern
 * Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid
 * Nibelungenklage
 * Nibelungenlied significantly expanded
 * Rabenschlacht
 * Rosengarten zu Worms
 * Sigenot significantly rewrote and expanded
 * Sigurd completely rewrote and expanded
 * Virginal (poem)
 * Wunderer
 * Zisa (goddess) - rewrote

Huns

 * History of the Huns
 * Hunnic language substantially reworked
 * Huns wrote or rewrote basically the whole article except for the "History" section, which I reduced greatly in length
 * Origin of the Huns

Egypt

 * Hyksos rewrote whole article with sources, despite not actually having time for it

Biblical history

 * The Exodus - quite a lot of work on origins and historicity sections, as well as some on modern Jewish and Christian commemoration
 * Milcom
 * Moloch - rewrote except for modern culture sections
 * Pontius Pilate - complete rewrite
 * Tophet wrote substantial portions of current article

Twentieth-century history

 * John Demjanjuk rewrote so as to remove emphasis on pro-Demjanjuk conspiracy theories

Linguistics

 * Afroasiatic languages complete rewrite
 * Proto-Afroasiatic language complete rewrite
 * Crimean Gothic complete rewrite