Re: Quadi

--- In cybalist@..., "Ben McGarr" <celteuskara@...> wrote:

> Many thanks for your help, Piotr and Torsten, you've given me a lot
> to think about there.
>
> Thus emboldened, I'll now ask what about the Hermunduri?
> Heremund-wares?
>
> Or the Chauci, Chatti, my own Anglii even? Narisci, Suiares, ...
> Angrivarii [angry men?!! ;o)], I remember someone proposing

something

> on the lines of 'Hart' for the Cherusci here a long time ago.
>
> All the best
> Ben

Don't get Piotr and me started on that one again ;-) (look in the
archives). I proposed that the name Hermunduri was Iranian, something
like Erman-e-Dur, the people of Tur, later translated into Germanic
as Thur-ing-i.

Torsten