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

> > Which means I'd have to posit some pre-Gmc. *egut-/*eyut- vel sim.
> > According to Snorri, the Jutes were formerly called Reidgotar,
> > and those to the east of them Eygotar.
> >
> > http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0039.html
> > http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0040.html
> >
> > Earlier all Danes were called Juutteja in Finnish and the
> > Øresund, where there have never been any Jutes, to my knowledge,
> > is still called Juutinrauma, Jouppe assured me.

>
> Juutinrauma "the Jute Room"? Isn't jute furniture flammable?

The Jute stream, is what it means.

> So if the Jutes were once Ey-gotar, what does *ey- < egut- mean?

Actually the text says
http://runeberg.org/antiqtid/5/0039.html
that what before was called Reidgotaland and Eygotaland are now called
Danaveldi og Sviaveldi.

> Because if you're starting from Eygot-, then you may have a case.
> But who besides Snorri backs you up?

Hervarar sägn

> What does Jouppe say about the Juut- ?

What I quoted him for above on Finnish.


Torsten