Re: Etruscan

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

> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:
> > Darwin R. Garcia -
> >
> > Possibly, the Danes were named after the river which they
> predominantly used to trade with the eastern folk. The locals would
> not know of the originating location of the Danes and most probably
> had little or no knowledge of their language either. I wonder if

this

> idea has any precedents in other parts of the world/history.
> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> >
> >
> > Why would the Danes call themselves the same name as a far-
> away "eastern folk" used to call them? That doesn't seem likely to
> me. Most peoples prefer not to borrow their own names from other
> languages, for example: the Germans are called "Germans" by the
> English, "Allemands" by the French, "nemeci" by the Czech, but they
> call themselves "Deutsche".
> >
> > Hakan
>
> But if they immigrated into Denmark from there, or used Denmark as

a

> base for trading there, those "estern folk" would not be far away.
>
> Torsten

And now, searching for "danann" in this group I found there has been
Iranian influence all the way to Berlin. That's not "far away".

Torsten