Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

With all of this talk about the Baltic I was wondering if there is any
connection with the West Gothic name Balthi?
Steve

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> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > Do you mean the RusI could be a surviving group of Gothic or
> Gepidic origin? What exactly points to the South Baltic (rather than
> Sweden or thereabouts) as their homeland?
> >
> > Piotr
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> or thereabouts.
>
> Torsten
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: S.Tarasovas@...
> > To: cybalist@...
> > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:06 PM
> > Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
> >
> >
> > I would prefer to more prudently call representatives of the RusI
> ethnos 'Germanic' rather than 'Scandinavian'. The sources we have
> point, more or less consistently, to the South Baltic cost as their
> probable Urheimat. Varingian (Scandinavian) influence were strong as
> > well, even some confrontation between RusI and Vare,zi is
> sometimes supposed, but the rulers were of RusI, not Varangian origin.
> >
> > Sergei
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