Re: [tied] Germanic in the east?

>a runic inscription from
> Kazakstan from a Scythian grave and dating from around 400-300 BCE .
> It is
> apparently in a Germanic tongue.

We know that Germanic speakers settled in the Crimea. Kazakstan begins at
the Caspian, which is not that far away. But what's a Scythian doing
speaking Germanic? Or did he/she simply happen to possess an item with a
Germanic inscription on it?

Peter