Sorry Tore, for my mistake.

I'm simply not awake yet.
I confused BC with AD
All my apologies.
Anders

--- In cybalist@..., "malmqvist52" <malmqvist52@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., Tore Gannholm <tore.gannholm@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > *****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.
>
> So they went directly from Scandinavia to Vistula to the Black Sea
> and attacked Rome from there together with Gepids and Heruli on
only
> a few decades. That is good work I must say.
> Then what about e g Tacitus then and Ptolemaios? Both wrong, or are
> not dealing with any goths on the continent? Fine with me in that
> case! Jordanes?
>
>
> I presume you have read Kokowski Leiber
> > "Schätze-der-Ostgoten".
>
> No
> 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.
> Interesting! When was the exodus *to* Gotland?
>
> > 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
>
> Is Your position that Gotland in Strabos time was under the
> Marcomanner Marbod? Then maybe the Marcomanner took part in the
> exodus *to* Gotland. Interesting indeed!
> Anders