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Here's a citation
from an article in turn cited at a Lithuanian history forum (the
authors seem to be Lithuanian historians whose names say nothing to
me):
'Reiksminga yra tai,
kad beveik po tukstancio metu Jordanas, kalbedamas apie Hermanariko pajungtus
krastus pirmiausiai mini „Golthescytha", kurią tyrinetojai linke pripazinti kaip
realu etnini faktą ir aiskinti kaip galindu - skitu darini, nusitesusi vos ne
iki Okos aukstupio. Sioje zonoje apie Sozes, Desnos ir Seimo upiu baltiskus ir
iraneniskus (siuo atveju skitiskus) rysius patvirtina ne tik lingvistikos,bet ir
archeologijos faktai.Nieko stebetino, kad galejo buti kuri laiką ir misrus
darinys, juk skitu-traku darinys yra istorinis faktas.'
'It's important that
nearly a thousand years [after Herodotus - S. T.] later Jordanes, speaking of
the territories united by Ermanaric first mentions Golthescytha, which
researchers are apt to admit to be the ethnic reality, explainable as a
product of Galindo-Scythian synthesis, extended nearly up to the upper reaches
of Oka. Both linguistic and archelogical facts confirm the existance of the
Balto-Iranian (here Scythian) connections in the Sozh-Desna-Seim zone. It would
be small wonder if a fusion would have existed for some time, since the
Scytho-Thracian fusion is a historical fact'.
IMO, the golthe- ~
*galind- comparison is far-streched, but can't be ruled out
completely.
Sergei