Hey, who refuses to respect facts? First of
all, the Castamonitu monastery on the island of Athos was attacked _during_ the
eighth century, not _before_ it, by an alliance involving
several ethnic groups, one of them being named as "Blacoryncini"
(Blakorunkinoi) (if I remember correctly) in a still later source that
recounts those events. There is no mention of Blachernae there, let alone a
connection being made between Blachernae and the Vlachs. As far as I remember,
the river Rhyncus is located in Chalcidice, and the name Blacoryncini _may_ mean
'Vlachs living on the Rhyncus' (as opposed to other "Rhyncians"). Even if the
identification is correct, we are _not_ dealing with pre-metathesis times, and
those putative Proto-Romanians make their début in northern Greece, not in
modern Romania.
Piotr
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Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Kastamonitu
[Moeller] the source is Kastamonitu. And "us" let me
correct
it in "me".We got the word Blachernae by Kastamonitu and
that
before the slavic methathesis. This is a fact and that is all.
The
slavic methathesis is not attested until 8 centruies, so
there is the date of
it. If this is true, then Blach is not a
slavic issue. Out of
question.