Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., "Rex H. McTyeire" <rexbo@...> wrote:

> > English is a strange language. I suppose "quibble"

means "responding

> > politely to postings of another opinion than your own".
>
> I meant it more in the sense of a tendency to valiantly stand alone

in

> defense of positions against invading hordes of better equiped

facts. :-)

>
> >We could of course
> > change the subject if it makes you unhappy? :)
>
> No No. I love to argue. Even when I loose, I have by definition,

learned

> something :-)
>
> Cu Stima;
> Rex H. McTyeire
> Bucharest, Romania

Ah, thusly. Here is a small token of my gratitude:
You were probably right.
It seems the event in Saxo's book five has to do (according to
several learned scholars) with the croosing of the Danube by the Goths
in 386, as described by several classical authors. But then, the river
was strewn with Gothic, not Hun corpses.
The learned scholars all seem to assume that Saxo copied Classical
sources. But if the Goths are driven across the Danube by pursuing
Huns, they must have met those Huns in battle before, possibly when
crossing another river? And what "Classical" descriptions could there
have been of´that?

Torsten

> <rexbo@...>