Re: [tied] Re: "Odin of Asgard"

*****GK: The Getae (not the Goths who at that time
were still in "Scandzia") ravaged what later (not in
Caesar's time) became a part of "Germania". At any
rate from the time of the arrival of the
Marcomanni.*****

Just a small comment. The Goths are considered having entered the Vistula
area about the 3rd century B.C. I presume you have read Kokowski Leiber
"Schätze-der-Ostgoten". Also the Swedish archaeologists like professor
Oscar Almgren says there was a exodus from Gotland between 300-150 B.C.
However they didn't know to where.

Polish archeologists, foremosst Wolagiewicz, have carefully studied the
Gotic gravefields in the Weichsel area and found that the oldest
gravefields to back to the second century B.C.


In the Roman geographer Strabons writings it says that the Goths belonged
to an association of Germanic tribes that was under the Marcomanner Marbod
. In Tacitus "Annales" one can read that the markomanner Catualda, before
he in year 19 demoted Marbod in Bohemia lived as a refugee among the Goths.
The Goths had already than built up a position that shows that they were
no new immigrants.

Professor Birger Nerman had no objection to the idea that the Gotic home
the island Skandia could be Gotland.
Tore