--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> According to Albrectsen, the finds in Fyn and other
> parts of Denmark
> point to a connection towards Western Germania in
> the period 0 - 200
> CE, then (200-400 CE) towards the Black Sea region.
> Perhaps what
> happened was that the trade routes in that direction
> were slowly
> opened again, in whatever way?
******GK: There is obviously no mystery about the fact
that the major (though not the only) link between
Baltic and Black Seas in the period in question
(200-400 AD) followed what we might call the
"Gotho-Vandalic highway"): Vistula-> Bug/h/ -> Bog/h/.
This is borne out not only by the archaeology of
Prezeworsk/Wielbark, but also (unless I am wrong on
this) by the etymology of the river names Bug/Bog,
which, it would seem, is Germanic. Later on, (again
there were other simultaneously functioning trade
routes) the major "highway" from Baltic to Black Sea
became the "Route from the Varangians to the
Greeks".*****
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