--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
Since
> > we have established that there was an influx into
> the
> > Jastorf culture
> > from the Przeworsk culture just before the time
> most
> > people assume
> > Proto-Germanic was formed,
****GK: Do "most people", including the linguists on
this list accept that Proto-Germanic was formed in the
1rst c. BC? *****
with Tacitus'
> information
*****GK: There is no relevant "Tacitus
information"****
> > we have a
> > migration
*****GK: Only in your imagination.*****
(and at least one loanword) from
> > Indo-Iranian to Proto-
> > Germanic territory.
*****GK: That has not been corroborated.******
>(GK) The
> > mix of Przeworsk with Jastorf that you mention
> does
> > not support your pet theory.
> >
>
>(TP) Well, it does provides the last link in the
chain.
*****GK: There is a link between Przeworsk and
Jastorf. There is no such documented link betweem
Przeworsk and Poeneshti-Lukashovka (the Bastarnians).
There is no documented link such as your theory
requires between Poeneshti-Lukashovka and the
Sarmatian steppe cultures of the period. And there is
no indication of a Germanic component among these
steppe cultures at that time, especially in the area
of the Lower Don and of the Azov seashores. So there
is no "chain", not even spider's web tendrils floating
in the wind... There is just unsubstantiated romantic
speculation which seems immune to rational
argumentation.******
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
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