Re: [tied] Vanir

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski"
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > > I've been contemplating the reading <*in Aunxis>
> myself, but
> > > have no idea what <*Aunxis> might be the abl.pl.
> of
>
> Just a sheer speculation. What if *Aunxis is of
> Baltic origin, cf.
> Lith. a'uksas 'gold', auksi`nis 'golden'? Then one
> of possible
> interpretations of <golthescytha thiudos inaunxis>
> would be 'Golden
> Scythians (or Gold-shielded), a people in gold(en
> region?)',
> originally with some gold-mining (or
> amber-gathering?) connotations.
>
> Sergei

*****GK: Some follow-ups on this. (1)I remember that
there are two or three borrowings from Slavic in
Gothic. Are there any attested borrowings from Baltic?
(2)This "gold-mining" would be somewhere to the west
of the enumeration, since Ves' Merya Mordva point to
areas west to east and "inauxis" precedes this. Any
such area known in the nearer Balticum? (3) As to the
amber-gathering coast as a possibility: that area
seems to be covered by another passage in
Jordanes:"... omnes Hermanarici imperiis servierunt.
Aestorum quoque similiter nationem, qui longissimam
ripam Oceani Germanici insident, idem ipse prudentia
et virtute subegit" (XXIII).*****

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