Re: Language - Area - Routes

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

> The Rugians followed the Vandals and the Langobards into the Vienna Basin and Pannonia, so that Lower Austria came to be known >as Rugiland.

Interestingly enough, 'Pove^stI...' calls the Noricum the homeland of the Slavs, which makes even such seriuos professionals as Truvachev think middle Danube was indeed their homeland. This could be related to the Rugian adstratum.

> Their original language would then have been a variety of common Northwest Germanic, much closer to Early Runic (and in particular to dialects ancestral to Danish, which should please Torsten) than to Gothic.
>
> Piotr

That pleases me as well: now it's possible to explain why Old Norse etymologies fit (if we assume the names were retained Rugic), explain chronist's note about the Danes in Kiev and another chronist's attribution of 'Rugi' ethnonym to OlIga.

Sergei