From: tgpedersen
Message: 12432
Date: 2002-02-22
>That's nice to hear, since that now disproved(?) presence would have
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > I place the "expulsion" [of thre Eruli]before their
> exploits
> > outside Scandinavia.
> > You seem to want to place it after that.
>
> *****GK: I confess to having no set opinion on the
> matter any more. I thought that the "expulsion" PRIOR
> to the first mention of the Eruli near the Black Sea
> was the better hypothesis. But after some discussions
> (with scholars like Andreas Schwarcz of Vienna and
> others) I realized that a pretty strong case could be
> made for alternative views. So I have suspended
> judgement. The only thing I am ABSOLUTELY certain of
> is that the Eruli were NOT settled at the mouth of the
> Don in the period 200-450 AD, and that the atatements
> of Ablabius/Cassiodorus/Jordanes to that effect are
> founded on an old misunderstanding initiated by
> Dexippos.******
>
>