From: alex_lycos
Message: 19815
Date: 2003-03-13
> The ultimate culprit is Johannes Trithemius, who invented MarcomirI susspect you indirectly see the word "marcomani" as being
> the Cimmerian (as historical as Conan the Barbarian) in his
> Hunibald's Chronicle forgery, late in the 15th century. The only
> authentic element here is the name Marcomir, which was indeen borne
> by some known Frankish noblemen. Nothing to do with Latin Marcus.
> Germanic *marka-/*marko: '(land)mark, boundary, borderland' is
> related to Latin margo:/marginis 'margin, border' and presumably to
> Celtic *mrogi- 'country'
>
> Piotr