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Portrait of Walther von der Vogelweide from the Codex Manesse (Folio 124r)


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

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

Germanic legend/mythology

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Huns

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Egypt

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

Biblical history

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  • 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 entirely
  • Pontius Pilate - complete rewrite
  • Tophet wrote substantial portions of current article

Twentieth-century history

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

Linguistics

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Barnstars

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  The Original Barnstar
For huge labours improving coverage of medieval German heroic narratives. Alarichall (talk) 18:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
  German Barnstar of National Merit
I thought it was about time to award you this for your excellent contributions to ye olde sagas, German or not. Vami_IV✠ 13:46, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
  The Editor's Barnstar
This barnstar is rewarded to you for your particularly fine contribution to the Huns article! You took what was a somewhat poorly organized article, and made it much more organized! You also helped start work in improving the citations on the page. It is now much more readable thanks to you! So here's a barnstar!--Beneficii (talk) 15:27, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
  The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar

A new editor on the right path
You joined our community only a couple of months ago, but you have improved quite a couple of articles. Thank you for your contributions. Borsoka (talk) 16:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
  The Original Barnstar
For a really helpful article on Die Rabenschlacht. Thanks! Alarichall (talk) 13:08, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
  Barnstar
I am glad to offer you this barnstar for helping sort out an old German translation of an arcane 13th century text in Tibetan (and another one in Tocharian). Thank you! पाटलिपुत्र Pat (talk) 09:45, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
  The Christianity Barnstar
For the extensive amount of effort improving Pontius Pilate. You definitely deserve this barnstar. Jerm (talk) 20:37, 20 December 2020 (UTC)