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

From: Steve Woodson
Message: 6092
Date: 2001-02-14

Thanks Piotr, it did seem like a stretch.
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

Gothic balth- = English bold. Baltha- and -balths are common in names like Baldwin < *Baltha-wini- or Theo(d)bald < *Thiuda-balth-.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes

With all of this talk about the Baltic I was wondering if there is any
connection with the West Gothic name Balthi?
                                                    Steve
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From: <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:26 AM
Subject: 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
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> or thereabouts.
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> Torsten
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> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: S.Tarasovas@...
> >   To: cybalist@...
> >   Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:06 PM
> >   Subject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes
> >
> >
> >   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
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