Re: etruscan

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> Saxo
> Grammaticus mentions conflicts between Danes and Ruthenians.
> Ruthenians in this context are Ukrainians.
>

Ukrainians in what sense? A mixture of Slavs, Germanic peoples
('Rusj'= Norse?) and already assimilated Balts&Iranians? There were
no Ukrainians in today's sense at Saxo's times.

Sergei