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tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >(GK) 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.
> >
> Right. Thanks. Will do. BTW is there anyway that
> *aors- and *as-
> might be related?
****GK: This is a question for our expert linguists.
All I can add (from memory) is that ca. 125 BC the
Chinese called the peoples near the Caspian "Antsai"
(or something like that). This has been interpreted as
"Anti" or variants. Some feel that it refers to the
Aorsi as the "people in front" of the Alans. The Aorsi
pushed westward across the Don ca. 20 AD initiating a
complex reshuffling of steppe Iranians which
eventually saw the Iazygi (and later the Roxolani)
move into the Hungarian Alfold. Pliny still knows the
Aorsi (as dominant northeast of the Danube), and
enumerates a host of their tribes. Later, those even
further east simply became "Alans", and some tribes
(like the Spali) made history under their own names.
It is the Spali who were defeated by the Goths, as you
may remember from Jordanes.*****
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
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