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

What Germanic names are equivalent to SfinUkelU, DirU and SveN I l IdU ?

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From: <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 11:50 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes


> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > What do you make of the names of the early Rus rulers (he said with
> > his nose in mr. Galster's book): Rurik, Oleg and Igor, supposedly
> > Rørek, Helge and Iver (which he even call Scylding, thus Danish
> > names)?
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> > Torsten
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> Germanic philology is not my string point, but what if we
> recinstruct, eg, Gothic forms of these names (Old Russian R'urikU,
> OlIgU, OlIga, IgorI:IngUvarI)? Please note also: it's sometimes hard
> to distinguish persons of RusI origin from persons of Varingian (Old
> Russian vare,zI) origin. Other Germanic name mentioned in Russian
> chrinicles are SfinUkelU (RusI), AskolIdU, DirU (Varangians),
> SveN I l IdU (?). Varangians well might be Danes (among others), your
> mention of Danes in Kiev is absolutely right (but there were large
> colonies of Jews, Khazars, Greeks etc. in Kiev as well). Constantine
> Porphyrogenetes enumerates 'Rho:~s'ish (='RusI'ish) names of Dnieper
> rapids which are certainly Germanic, but AFASK some interpret them as
> Scandinavian, some doubt. I'll try to post the names ASAP.
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> Sergei
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