Baudihillia
Baudihillia is the name of a Germanic goddess recorded in inscriptions from Vercovicium on Hadrian's Wall in northern England . In a votive inscription from the end of the 2nd century her name is mentioned next to that of the Friagabis . Both are known as "duabus Alaisagis". Through this nickname Alaisiagae and from the place where they were found, they are seen as companions of Mars Thincsus and, among other things, either interpreted as thing goddesses or as healing and blessing deities. The following inscription was made by a Roman auxiliary unit , the Numerus Hnaudifridi :
"Deabus // Alaisia / gis Bau / dihillie / et Friaga / bi et N (umini) Aug (usti) / n (umerus) Hnau / difridi / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) m (erito). "
"To the goddesses of Alaisiagae, Baudihillia and Friagabis and to the divinity of the emperor, the unity of Hnaudifridus gladly and rightly fulfilled their vows."
Theodor Siebs interpreted the name as the usual Germanic two-part full name with the second member hildio- = "fight" as "the end of the battle area" with the change of the final word to the position of the basic word . Rudolf Simek criticizes Sieb's solution with regard to its conjecture and construction. Rudolf Much put Baudi- to Indo-European * bhoudhi- > Old Irish buaid , Germanic * baudi- = "victory" and translated the name as "victory fighter". Anton Scherer and Hans Krahe generally saw the name as borrowed from Celtic . Jan de Vries declared the name unclear. With Baudihilla, Norbert Wagner assumes a simple reversal and compares it with documents in Germanic names such as Mallo-baudes to the form Baudo-malla . Germanic * Hildi-bauð like the Old High German document Hiltibōd has * Bauda-hildī . Baudihillia , analogous to Harimella, shows an i as a fugue vowel through Latin influence, the Latinized ending was added to -a and from the Germanic element -ld- the vulgar Latin -ll- .
literature
- On an Altar Dedicated to the Alaisiagae. In: Archaeologia Aeliana (Ser. 3) 19 (1922), pp. 185-197 .
- Siegfried Gutenbrunner : The Germanic god names of the ancient inscriptions. (= Rhenish contributions and auxiliary books on Germanic philology and folklore 24). Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1936, pp. 24-25, 41-49.
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X , pp. 7–8, 44, 117.
- Norbert Wagner : Fledimella *, Harimella * and Baudihillia *. In: Historische Sprachforschung 115, 1 (2002), pp. 93–98.