From: tgpedersen
Message: 57616
Date: 2008-04-18
>As far as I'm concerned, it's a hypothesis like any other hypothesis.
>
> --- 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.
>
> ****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 aboutThe alphabet (north Etruscan) is a preform in one proposed development
> these helmets, such as the dates of the inscriptions above all.
> As to the burial, your time frame has been deemed possible by someIn that scenario, why would a helmet with a Germanic inscription be
> (though perhaps they associated this with the Dacian invasion).
> The Cimbric invasion is also a possible burial time.And we know soWe know that that Ariviostus grieving father-in-law after 58 BCE had
> little about the area's history that we can't even speculate about
> other alternatives.
> BTW Negau was not in Noricum but in Pannonia.****http://www.jstor.org/pss/410026