Re: The progressive emergence of "Germanic"

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

>
> >
> > > What am I to make of the 'Harigasti teiwa'
> > > inscription on the Negau
> > > helmet? "Harigasti god"? What is the proper
> > > interpretation of that?
> >
> > GK: Teiwaz knows... It may be relevant to
> note
> > that the "teiwa" part is actually a longer
> inscription
> > some portions of which (3 or 4 letters) have not
> been
> > deciphered. If Hubert is right in suggesting that
> the
> > Celtic words represent in all cases
> name+patronymic
> > combinations, then "teiwa..i.." might have been a
> > Germanic patronymic constructed out of either a
> god
> > name or of something that had some of the same
> sounds
> > as a god name.
>
> 'harikastiteiva\\\ip'.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negau_helmet
> Whatever ends in -ip in Germanic.
>
> Here's suggestion to why they were found where they
> were found:
> After the debacle, Ariovistus' ceremonial helmet and
> that of others
> close to him were sent back to his father-in-law,
> king Voccio of
> Noricum, where they were buried sometime after 58
> BCE.
>
>
> Torsten

****GK: Another one of your fantasies, Torsten. Surely
you're not serious about "Harigast" being Ariovistus?
In any case there are other things which need to be
settled about these helmets,such as the dates of the
inscriptions above all. As to the burial, your time
frame has been deemed possible by some (though perhaps
they associated this with the Dacian invasion). The
Cimbric invasion is also a possible burial time.And we
know so little about the area's history that we can't
even speculate about other alternatives. BTW Negau
was not in Noricum but in Pannonia.****

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