From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 11371
Date: 2001-11-21
>Right. Thanks. Will do. BTW is there anyway that *aors- and *as-
> --- tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > [BTW the richest finds of Early Roman Iron Age
> > weapons and gold on
> > Fyn are in Gudme on the east coast].
> >
> > Politikens Arkæologi Leksikon, 1985
> >
> > Jørgen Jensen:
> >
> > Gravskik [Burial customs]
> >
> > Romersk jernalder [Roman Iron Age (0-400 CE)]
> >
> > Med ældre romersk jernalder kommer de første
> > jordfæstegrave, dvs.
> > gravlæggelse af ubrændt 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.
>