Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

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From: george knysh [mailto:gknysh@...]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:41 AM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

 > I concluded that a case could be
made that the constant pairing of the two rulers of
Kyiv(Kiev)mentioned there as "boyars of Rurik", to
wit, Askold and Dyr (Askold i Dir --> Askolt-i-Dir(t),
killed by Oleg on the Ugrian Hill, might represent not
so much an earlier Norse presence, as a Khazar
imperial one. 

 

But both names have pluasible Scandinavian etymologies (I remember me to ask and Piotr to answer some time ago).

 

P.S.

I had digested the Nikolaev's article by 1 a.m., but was too exausted to synthesize an abstract (it was uncautiuosly of me to refer you to the article - it's rather complex and overloaded with technicalities). I'll do something in twelve hours.

 

Sergei