Re: [tied] Gundestrup

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:

> Torsten-
> Indic-speaking Cimmerians on their way to the British Isles? Strabo
> mentions that some thought the Cimmerians and Cimbri were the same,
>but
> this is probably just due to the similarity of the names.

Let's hope it is, otherwise linguists and archaeologists studying
them might have to learn Danish.

>Do we even
> know much about the Cimmerians or their language?

No. Except that perhaps that perhaps as Strabo said, they might be
identical to the Cimbri.

> One encyclopedia from my old work said that some Cimmerians

migrated and

> settled in Eastern Europe in the 5th century B.C., and I always

thought

> they resembled the Scythians in culture and appearance.
>
> I've heard it said that they spoke an Iranian and/or Thracian

language,

> could they have been somewhat of a hodgepodge of peoples? I've

never

> heard of a Cimmerian migration
>to Northern or Western Europe, though.

Not even from Strabo?

> Would love your response- Michael
>

There was a, shall we say, heated debate on that subject thousands of
postings back. Our Celtic friends in particular were convinced that
Strabo didn't have a clue (and of many other things).
Of course, for them to have been identical, they would have had to
switch language to Celtic en route.

Torsten