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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, lookwhoscross-eyednow@... wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering about Strabo's reference to the
Celts and Germans being grouped with Scythians prior to specific
knowledge about them. Could Germanic peoples have been encountered
by the Greeks (prior to knowledge of them as a distinct people) and
grouped them with and classified them as Scythians? Herodotus writes
of the Agricultural Scythians, and J.P. Mallory suggests that these
were Slavic. Could a similar thing happened with contact with
Germanic peoples? Strabo also mentiones Celto-Scythians, and I've
always wondered the extent of Celtic and Scythian contact (and
therefore Scythian and Germanic contact?)-Michael
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I've waged sevaral battles here in cybalist that Snorri's (and
other's) account of an origin in the Pontic area should be taken as
it stands. They would then have been driven out by Pompey's campaigns
in that area and settled in Thurungia, where they mixed 50 years
later with a massive influx of Bastarnian (thus Germanic)-speaking
peoples driven out of Pannonia by Augustus' campaigns there, and
picked up that language. From there they subjugated Germany and
Scandinavia, until then Old-Germanic and Celtic speaking.
Unfortunately now most of those postings are beyond the reach of the
remaining power of the cybalist search engine.
Torsten