820 canonical forms + 578 route stages.
THE TIMELINE ATLAS
JOURNEY ATLAS ↗FORM / ROUTE / BOUND
1398 REVIEWED EVENTSLANGUAGE
IN TIME.
One cross-word chronology for every defensibly bounded form and journey stage—without converting a vague historical label into a fake year.
A reviewed graph bound, not a claim of an earliest human word.
Only stages with directly cited numeric bounds enter this atlas.
Labels remain visible in Journey Atlas, but not parsed into false years.
008 MATCHING EVENTS
FILTER THE CHRONOLOGY
WHEN DID THE EVIDENCE LAND?
TWO CLOCKS.
NO FALSE PRECISION.
FORM CHRONOLOGY dates a canonical linguistic form or reconstruction in the lexical graph.
ROUTE CHRONOLOGY dates a geographic or transmission stage in a word’s journey.
They can share an era band, but they are never silently treated as the same kind of claim.
CROSS-WORD CHRONOLOGY / EARLIEST BOUND FIRST
THE EVIDENCE IN TIME
Antiquity2 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatan
*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan
Orel’s Gothic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old High German comparison supports a Germanic verb family, while the exact reconstruction and the possibility of specifically Gothic remodeling remain disputed.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not an attested word date or archaeological point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 CE–399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEFourth-century Gothic translation tradition
hatan
hatan represented by two participles
Luke 1:71 and Luke 6:27 belong to the Gothic Gospel translation tradition. Their lexical swap reveals translation behavior but does not date the first spoken use or prove that the construction was newly coined.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
The century dates the translation tradition, not the exact moment hatan entered Gothic or acquired a particular construction.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
500 CE–525 CErange
ROUTE STAGERavenna
hatan
early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus witnesses
Both directly inspected participles occur in the purple-vellum Gospel codex probably copied in Ravenna: hatandane on folio 123r and hatandans on folio 143v.
4 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval operationalizes the official early-sixth-century dating; 510 is only a representative attestation year for both surviving objects.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern5 ON THIS PAGE
1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatan
sixteenth-century manuscript custody
The codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is the route of the evidence object, not proof that spoken Gothic traveled with it.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the codex was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatan
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1654 CE–1669 CErange
ROUTE STAGEHolland custody
hatan
Isaac Vossius and acquisition by De la Gardie
Vossius took the manuscript to Holland; Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie later bought it and presented it to Uppsala University.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history names Holland but does not reduce this custody stage to one city or exact transaction year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1669 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEUppsala University Library
hatan
custody since 1669
De la Gardie presented the codex to Uppsala University in 1669. Modern facsimiles expose both folios while Project Wulfila supplies the aligned corpus analyses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗UNBOUNDED IS
A REAL RESULT.
Stages without source-backed numeric bounds stay in their complete Journey Atlas route, carry an explicit temporal note, and remain absent here until the evidence supports normalization. The missing point is visible work—not permission to guess.