>Wald [ruled] the Woings, Wod the Thuringians,
Wald (along with -bald/-bold) from vb. waltan (> walten; Gewalt)?
>Saeferth the Sycgs, Ongendtheow the Swedes,
What tribe was that of the Sycgs (where in the 6th c.)?
The German name Seifert (< Seifried < Sîfrit "Siegfried") has lots
of variants, inter alia: Seiffert, Seyfahrt, Seuffert, Seufried,
Seidel, Seiferlin(g), Sifferlin, Sifferle, Seiferle, Seifarth,
Seyffarth, Sievers, Sievert(s)(en), Siffert, Siefers, Siewers,
Siewert...
(Not Siffrin: this one is... Severinus, a.k.a. Frings.)
(Not Jewish Saffran, Schaffran, Safren, Safrien, Safrin, Schifrin,
Sufrin cf. saffron < either Severin or zaferan, zafaran, zarparan.)
Most of Seifert/Seifarth are spread in the south of East-Germany
and Silezia, Siever-, Siefer-, Siewer- in Northern Germany
(Hamburg etc.).
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As for Sithones, en.wikipedia says:
<<Sithones (Greek: ΣίθÏνεÏ) is the name of a Thracian tribe[1].
References
1. ^ The central Balkan tribes in pre-Roman times: Triballi, Autariatae, Dardanians, Scordisci and Moesians,ISBN-9025607934,
page 69, by Fanula PapazoÄlu, 1978, "were directed against the
Thracian coast. The Greeks came into contact with the ...
says that "the outstanding Thracian tribes were the Sithones">>
Is this a mistake?
George