Re: Sin once more

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "gknysh" <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > >(GK) The point is and remains that whatever you draw from Snorri
> > > and/or Saxo about "events in Germania at the time" has no
> > > relationship to either the history, pre-history,or archaeology
> > > of Eastern Europe east of the Bug, about which I have some
> > > knowledge (:=)).

It is rather impressive, I think everyone agrees.

> > (TP)Yes, we haven't discussed that much. Last thing you told me
> > was that around the middle of the first century BCE, some
> > Iranian-speaking folk attacked the, was it Zarubintsy? culture,
> > forcing them to migrate south to Galicia.
>
> ****GK: 50 CE, not 50 BCE. Only those of the upper Pripet migrated
> to Galicia. Those of the Middle Dnipro who bore the brunt of the
> Sarmatian assault (these Sarmats were part of the Late Scythian
> State led by the Satarchai Spali, later defeated by the Goths as
> Jordanes recounts) migrated northeastward, creating the
> preconditions for the historical emergence of the Slavs. The
> "Zarubinians" of Galicia eventually became a component of the
> Goths.****

Could you give me a rundown of the major events in the first century
BCE eat of the Bug? I'll probably use it against you, as you know, but
you're of course welcome to do the same with Kuhn and Peschel. Make it
as short or as detailed as you like. In particular I'd like to hear of
migrations, as you had probably guessed.


Torsten