Re: Caucasian Alania?

--- In cybalist@..., George S t a n a <gs001ns@...> wrote:

>
> >formed a kingdom which was destroyed by the Goths. Part of them

went

> >to North Africa with the Vandals to set up a state there which was
> >destroyed by the East Roman emperor Justinian. Another contingent

of

> >Alans ended in China where several are found hundred years later is
> >imperial civil servants. The Alans' other name was A:s.
>
> And in Catalonia (Goth+Alania). (Later, other As settled down in
> the Tisza plain in Hungary, somewhere between Debrecen and
> Budapest, where numerous toponyms start with "Jász" /ja:s/, which
> is the Hungarian name of the Alans; as well as a Hungarian surname.
> Ia$i (or Jassy), the capital of Moldavia, seems to have the same
> etymology.)
>
> >Torsten
>
> George

And some of them went to Thuringia and changed language and then to
Scandinavia and called themselves Aesir or Asia-men or Heruli and
then everyone got tired of them and kicked them out and ... ouch! ...
don't do that!

Torsten