The Church Fathers · c. 350–380
The Gothic Bible
Ulfilas · c. 311–383
What it is
A translation of most of the Bible into Gothic by a missionary bishop who invented an alphabet to do it, said to have omitted the books of Kings as too warlike for his converts.
Why it lasted
The oldest substantial text in any Germanic language, and the vehicle by which Arian Christianity reached the tribes that would inherit the Western empire.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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