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4 unusual facts about Codex Argenteus


Codex Argenteus

In the 1660s, it was bought and taken to Uppsala University by count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, who also provided its present lavishly decorated binding.

The stolen parts were recovered one month later, in a storage box at the Stockholm Central Railway Station.

The tribes we consider Gothic were nominally Arians during the period of time when Ulfilas translated the Christian bible into Gothic, meaning that they followed the teachings of Arius about the person and nature of Jesus Christ.

Gehenna

The 4th century Ulfilas (Wulfila) or Gothic Bible is the first Bible to use Hell's Proto-Germanic form Halja, and maintains a distinction between Hades and Gehenna.


Richard Cleasby

In 1839 he collated the Codex Argenteus at Upsala, and in January 1840 he formed the plan of his Icelandic-English Dictionary, starting work by April.


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