Re: Cymerians?

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Joesph S Crary" <pva@...> wrote:
> > Torsten
> >
> > I believe the Gundestrup cauldron was recovered from a bog in the
> > Himmerland, which you're correct Himmer is the Danish name for
> > the Cimbri-Cimmeri.
>
> Yes, that's what the site at the end of the link I supplied says.
>
>
> >It's been dated to the 4th or 3rd centuries
> > BC,which would be a little early for the Danes, yet when they did
> > show its likely the remaining Cimbri, such as they were, did drop

a

> > few.
>
> Erh - I thinnk you misunderstood me. What suggested was that it was
> hidden when the Danes invaded Denmark, whether escaping from Attila
> or driven out of the North Pontic region by Pompey (1st century

BC),

> at a time when it was already several hundred years old. In any

case,

> if they fled up the Danube (Snorri's story of Odin travelling

through

> Saxland to reach Denmark) they would have been close to Thrace on

the

> way.
>

Now I'm talking nonsense. The question is of course whether the
*Cimmerians* passed Thrace on their way to Jutland (and the British
Isles). Whether the Danes passed the same way several hundred years
later is of course irrelevant.

> Torsten