Re: Skiri Bastarnae

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9803
Date: 2001-09-26

--- In cybalist@..., malmqvist52@... wrote:
> Hi, Torsten
> Torsten:
> >Could it be Goths? This would mean that we would
> > have to push Jordanes account of the arrival of the Goths back
> > several hundred years from the usually assumed 300 CE.
>
> Jordanes doesn't say that the Goths arrived 300 CE but 1490 BCE!!!
>
> This I learned in a July -discussion in Gothic-l Dirk there finally
> wraps up the discussion in this message:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gothic-l/message/4625
> -------
> Jordanes does mention a year. From Andreas' message 4588:
>
> "Jordanes, Getica, 25 and 94 f. and his own introduction to "Typen
> der
> Ethnogenese"(vol.1, Wien 1990, p.26) as further literature. There
he
> also cites Jordanes, Getica, 313, and here you will find that
> Jordanes gives the duration of the Gothic kingship with 2030 years,
> ending in 540 AD with the capitulation of Witigis:
>
> Et sic famosum regnum fortissimamque gentem diu regnantem tandem
pene
> duomillesimo et tricesimo anno victor gentium diversarum
Iustinianus
> imperator per fidelissimum consulem vicit Belesarium, et perductum
> Vitiges Constantinopolim patricii honore donavit."
> --------
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Anders

Hi Anders

From when does Jordanes count Gothic kingship? From the arrival at
Gothiscandza or does he include the time in Scandinavia.

Torsten