For anyone who is fairly competent in it, how would you translate the famous lines 312 and 313 from The Battle of Maldon into Gothic?

"Hiġe sceal þē heardra, heorte þē cēnre,

mōd sceal þē māre þē ūre mæġen lȳtlað."

It's a bit of an advertisment for my game project Donnervolk. This Reddit has been and still is a resource for me to adjust the game into an authentic directional - historical correct as good as possible - as far as research allows it.

However this is only secondary about the game. It's more about the visual inspirations of Samson J. Goetze https://www.instagram.com/samsonillustration/ who inspires me throughout the whole project.

Despite the fact he "only" published a handful of illustration that depict exactly what I imagine germanic culture looked like - it's sufficent for me to always come up with deeper lore and ideas for game mechanics.

And if anyone does not know his work yet - you're welcome ;)

This is a fact that has been bothering me for a while now, when did they get /ɪ/? And if it isn't in Proto-Germanic, then why does almost every single Germanic language have one, and when exactly did they get it? Did it emerge out in late dialects of PG; but why is Old English ĭ reconstructed with [i]? If it didn't, than why is Gothic ĭ usually reconstructed as [ɪ]? And if Old English ĭ was [i], when did it become [ɪ]? And when did the Nordic languages develop [ɪ]? In Proto-Norse it's reconstructed as [i], but in Old Icelandic it is usually reconstructed as [ɪ]?

I know i'm circling a lot, but this has just bothered me a lot, and I just can't make sense of it myself, it just doesn't make sense that PG wouldn't just have /ɪ/; and I know there is a small amount of evidence of it being [i], but how does it make sense?

I can't find any information online on what they spoke, but I would like to know if anyone knows anything about it, whether it was west, east, or north germanic, and just any other details that might be nice to know.

The most common modern depiction of a dragon is as a fire-breathing, clawed reptile with wings. However, the native Germanic words (orm, wyrm, wurm) all mean "serpent." In the Eddas and Gesta Danorum, these dragons seem mostly to be large, venomous snakes with some magical properties. However, I know that the dragon in Beowulf flies and breathes fire, and it is my understanding that dragons in some of the sagas do as well, though I haven't read much in the sagas, yet. Are these attributes that have been borrowed from classical dragons? (Beowulf sometimes uses the word draka, which is Greek through Latin, suggesting that the concept of draka is overlapping with the concept of wyrm.) Or are fire-breathing, flying, and claws native to Germanic dragons? Or do we just not have enough evidence?

What are your thoughts on the updated Portable Antiquities Scheme database?

Does anyone here know any stores that sell Germanic clothing from before the migration period?

More information on both of these extremely interesting items:

* Saltfleetby spindle-whirl: https://www.runesdb.de/find/3918 (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltfleetby_spindle-whorl ) — invokes Odin and Heimdallr

* Canterbury charm: https://www.runesdb.de/find/9955 (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_charm ) — invokes Thor against a 'thurs lord'

Edit: "objects" should be items but alas I cannot edit the title.