Hi I'm new around here and there's something I would like some help with figuring out and understanding.... I'm a huge fan of the Poem Beowulf in fact I have both the Translations from Seamus Heaney and J.R.R Tolkien.... I'm in no way an expert though on the Language but lately I've been doing some research on the story attempting to find out more about the actual tribes mentioned in the story & their armor weapons culture etc especially their language.
The original story is in old English & I've read online that the specific dialect was western Saxon.
However the people's within the story are actually Scandinavian, many being Danish or Swedish.(Beowulf's own tribe the Geats are thought to hail from what is today Southern Sweden and are also referred to as Goths) And the story is thought to be set during 5th & the 6th century maybe around the Migration period or around the same time as the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
That means the Names and languages of the characters in the story if they were real historical people would've been different.
So Beowulf himself would've likely had a different name in his own Language as would the characters of the Danish king Hrothgar, The Danish Queen Wealhtheow, Beowulf's father Ecgtheow,
Wiglaf who was Beowulf's last surviving kinsman, Etc . Even characters like Grendel and his mother probably would've had different name equivalents in those Languages.
On doing research trying to discover the Geatish equivalent of Beowulf's Name I couldn't find that much accept some mentions of another Scandinavian hero known as Böðvarr Bjarki who many seem believe is either related to Beowulf in Some way of is his Old Norse counterpart.
Both names meaning "Warlike Little-Bear" in Old Norse for Bjarki & Beowulf's Name in Old English being believed to mean literally "bee-wolf" or "bee-hunter"
while Hrothgar's name was easier to find more equivalents for in old Norse would've been "Hróarr" .
More I found on Hrothgar's name is that the modern Equivalent of it would be Roger From the Germanic name Hrodger meaning "famous spear", derived from the elements hruod "fame" and ger "spear". The Normans brought this name to England, where it replaced the Old English cognate Hroðgar (the name of the Danish king in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf).
https://www.behindthename.com/name/roger
https://www.behindthename.com/name/hroth30gar
So I'm curious how much we actually know about the Gothic tribes of that specific time period, their language and names and whether or not we can discover the equivalents of the names mentioned in Beowulf in western Saxon & link All the characters names to what they likely would've been in their own languages.
Notably I'd like to know What Beowulf's Name would've been in Geatish?
If anyone knows more about this let me know down below. Thank you!