Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-11-03 00:22, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > Good job, no wonder you went up in Torsten's esteem from a fellow
> > rock "Piotr" to the Gift of God "Fyodr", but isn't Theodoros with a
> > /t/ in Polish?, as Tadeusz for Thaddeus
>
> Yes, as in Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (a.k.a. Joseph Conrad).
> But I think Torsten (whose name, with its t-r-s, is surely Etruscan)
> meant something like OIc. fjödr.

Did you just call me a þursa?
I just looked up fjödr, so now I know what it means. I was just
running you though Grimm's law. There is a word pjort in Jysk, though.


Torsten