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

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

> 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

or thereabouts.

Torsten

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: S.Tarasovas@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:06 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
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> 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