Re: etruscan

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, s.tarasovas@... wrote:

> --- 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

Oops. In the sense that I heard that some people have claimed that
today's Ruthenians are "a kind of" Ukrainians. I retract my claim.
But I still believe that if Saxo approx 1250 mentions Ruthenians, it
must have been a people that lived close to where they live today.

Torsten