Re: [tied] Re: Accepted cognates of Arya?

From: george knysh
Message: 12422
Date: 2002-02-21

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> (mumbling to himself):
> The Western European open-style royal crown is
> actually a red cap
> (the funny stuffing inside) with a tiara around it.
> Now how did that arrive there? With Roman soldiers?
> Imitating Roman
> kings and emperors? Nah.
> Gregory of Tours, in his discussion of the origin of
> the Franks seems
> to argue on the principle that what has a king is a
> people. Dukes and
> other leaders don't count. Therefore he tries to
> trace back the
> lineage of the Frankish kings back to Pannonia and
> beyond.
>
> Torsten

*****GK: One of the "symbolisms" which seems to have
arrived West from the East is the famous French
"fleur-de-lys". An identically stylized tamga was used
by Alanic groups within the Bosporan Kingdom (3rd
century). Some of the Alans who crossed the Rhine in
406 stayed in France.******
>
>
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