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tgpedersen@... wrote:
> [BTW the richest finds of Early Roman Iron Age
> weapons and gold on
> Fyn are in Gudme on the east coast].
>
> Politikens Ark�ologi Leksikon, 1985
>
> J�rgen Jensen:
>
> Gravskik [Burial customs]
>
> Romersk jernalder [Roman Iron Age (0-400 CE)]
>
> Med �ldre romersk jernalder kommer de f�rste
> jordf�stegrave, dvs.
> gravl�ggelse af ubr�ndt skelet. >
>
> [With Early Roman Iron age come the first inhumation
> graves, ie.
> burial of the unburned skeleton. >
> Which means that the archaeological facts east of
> the Don and in
> Denmark match nicely with an "Odin"-invasion. Only
> Snorri says the
> opposite; if only he could have kept his mouth shut
> (but only on this
> point)!
*****GK: What you need to do now is to find the
archaeological literature that will inform you about
the specific inventories of the inhumations graves,
esp. the "rich" ones, from the VERY early Roman Age.
The area where Snorri puts his "Asaland" was occupied
by the Aorsi (or "West" Alans) in the 1rst c. BC
Strabo mentions two basic groups:
"[11.5.8] The next peoples to which one comes between
Lake Maeotis and the Caspian Sea are nomads, the
Nabiani and the Panxani, and then next the tribes of
the Siraces and the Aorsi. The Aorsi and the Siraces
are thought to be fugitives from the upper tribes of
those names and the Aorsi are more to the north than
the Siraces [[GK: The Siraces are located in today's
Krasnodar (Kuban) region of Russia. The Aorsi were in
the steppes directly to the east of the Don, up to the
Volga and beyond]]. Now Abeacus, king of the Siraces,
sent forth twenty thousand horsemen at the time when
Pharnaces held the Bosporus[[GK: 63-47 BC]]; and
Spadines, king of the Aorsi, two hundred thousand; but
the upper Aorsi sent a still larger number, for they
held dominion over more land, and, one may almost say,
ruled over most of the Caspian coast."
What you need to find out is whether the rich objects
in the early Roman Iron Age of Denmark have any
relationship to those of the Aorsan area.== And
generally see what archaeologists have to say about
other discernible contacts.
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