Odp: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 6016
Date: 2001-02-10

Do you mean the RusI could be a surviving group of Gothic or Gepidic origin? What exactly points to the South Baltic (rather than Sweden or thereabouts) as their homeland?
 
Piotr
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From: S.Tarasovas@...
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:06 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

I would prefer to more prudently call representatives of the RusI ethnos 'Germanic' rather than 'Scandinavian'. The sources we have point, more or less consistently, to the South Baltic cost as their probable Urheimat. Varingian (Scandinavian) influence were strong as
well, even some confrontation between RusI and Vare,zi is sometimes supposed, but the rulers were of RusI, not Varangian origin.

Sergei