From: george knysh
Message: 20201
Date: 2003-03-22
> is that the******GK: Explain yourself more fully.******
> authors had confused Bosporus with the Cimmerian
> Bosporus.
>******GK: What do these incredible stupidities have to
> But as regards the "north, then west" direction, cf
> this abstract
> from "Hunibald":
>
> "
> 2. Marcomirus I: king of the 28
> 444- 416
> Sicambri (from the German
> Cimbri in whose ancient
> territory they settled).
> In 441 he brought the people
> out of Scythia and seated
> them on the Danube. During
> a council he was told by a
> pagan priest to go west where
> Brutus of Troy had previously
> gone. A pagan prophecy
> promises him victory over the
> Gauls and the Romans. Sends
> embassy to Saxons and asks
> for land in which to settle.
> In April 439 B.C. they leave
> the lower Danube and move
> overland, first north, then
> west, to the mouth of the
> Rhine. A total of 489,360
> persons (including 175,658
> warriors but not including
> slaves and servants) take
> part.