Re: [tied] When Getae equaled Goths

From: george knysh
Message: 12926
Date: 2002-03-29

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> I seem to recall that the Alans were also known as
> the As people? Did
> they also provide the Germanic-speaking Goths with
> leaders, divinely
> inspired or otherwise (he asked innocently)?
>
> Torsten

*****GK: Whether or not they were divinely inspired is
anybody's guess, but it's usually believed that the
leaders of those Greuthungi who acknowledged little
Videric as King after the death of Vithimiris in
battle with the Huns, to wit, Alatheus and Saphrax,
were of Iranic (Alanic) descent.*****
>
>
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