Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> > And by "Wenden" etc. do they mean Slavic or
> something else?****
>
> Erh, they? As I understand it, most if not all (you
> never know) of the
> people who named those places are dead. Perhaps you
> want to reconsider
> your statement about an Atlantic - Baltic Veneti
> connection?

****GK: The big Slav push of the 6th century reached
beyond the Elbe, and into Thuringia (outlier groups).
So there would be nothing strange if some isolated
elements got as far as Minden.****

>
> OK, I'll check. The map is from Kuhn's article
> 'Welsch-namen zwischen
> Weser und Rhein'. He's getting really complicated
> here. At first
> glance, it seems he wants to see the Welsch- names
> as a continuation
> of the Wend- names, so to speak a renaming of the
> groups before the
> Germani; remember in his time there was no fixation
> of Veneti with the
> Pomeranian culture.

****GK: If the Hesse Celtic and Celticized population
bordered on the NWB, it's rather likely that the NWB
had a name for them. And if they were Volcae or part
of a large Volcan confederation, the name might have
been quite similar to the Germanic one.****

>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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