Re: False Scandinavian Origins

--- In cybalist@..., Tore Gannholm <tore.gannholm@...> 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?
> >
> >I noticed BTW that the Germanic-speaking area at the time

corresponds

> >in extent to the later Poland-Lithuania. Since I suspect that trade
> >routes and transport are important in defining the area that a
> >linguistic group choose to settle in, could I ask Piotr (as

everybody

> >does!) to tell us some of what he might know of production and
> >transport routes in Poland-Lithuania, especially transport on water
> >and the problem of transshipment between the Baltic and the Black

Sea

> >river systems? All I know is anecdotal information that the roads
> >were not too good? Thank you in advance?
> >
> >Torsten
> >
>
> Torsten,
> Just read the Gotlandic history. The Gotlanders used these rivers:

Visla, Bug

>
> That is the way "Krampmacken" was intended to sail but was stopped

at

> the than Sovjet border. Instead they followed Visla all the way and
> went over to Donau.
>
> One of the more popular ways from Gotland was the Riga bay and
> further river Düna.
>
> Tore
> --

I have found some information you will appreciate. I recently reread
Albrectsen. Seems he and everyone else was puzzled that inhumation
graves from pre-Roman Iron Age (before 0 CE) were found in Gotland
when everywhere else in Scandinavia nothing but cremation graves are
found. And that they disappear in early Roman Iron Age only to
reappear later.

Where do I find that Gotland history? I seem to recall you had a site
on it somewhere?

Torsten