Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>Perhaps a residual Rugian group had migrated to the Novgorod area to become linguistically absorbed by the Swedish colonisers while retaining a separate name and identity, but that's becoming rather speculative without good linguistic evidence that the Rus were >anything else but Scandinavian.

If I remeber correctly, the theories I've read have it that Rugians merged to the part of future East Slavs some centuries earlier (even may be before they reached their historically attested territory) than Scandinavians, whose influence was strong and obvious.
One of the books stated there were more than one 'Rugiland' in the early medieval Europe. I've personally read in an independent source Rugi's that presence is attested in Pannonia.

It's 'retaining of a separate name and identity', not the language, which the theory considers to be supported by narrative and archaelogical (funeral rites) evidence. I'll collect the necessary facts and will ask your permission to continue the thread.

Sergei