--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> That would be too draconian. Even more exact sciences admit
educated guesses and even wild conjectures as working hypotheses in
the hope that verification will make us abandon some of them so that
the remaining ones can be probed further. The problem is whether a
conjecture can be tested at all. I have cited several other
hypotheses about the origin of "Hrvat" and ventured one of my own
(for which I don't claim any special credibility). There's in fact
little to choose here -- none looks definitely more promising that
the rest.
>
> Piotr
>
>
That's what happens to us poor Scandinavians all the time. No one
discovers it when we're being sarcastic. Sigh.
"
One of the confluents to Don river near the region of Azov is called
Horvatos (see [Pascenko], p. 87). The Croatian name can be traced on
different sites in Ukraine, also around Krakow in Poland, Bohemia,
Austria, thus showing migrations of the Croatian tribes to their
future homeland.
"
from
http://www.homepage.techno.ru/iso/istreta/hist_en.htm
Torsten