Re: Celts/Gauls

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

>

> Finally, Tacitus mentioned that the term Germani was the

original

> name of the Tungri before becoming a collective term for all the

Germans.

> Now, a tribe called the Germani were attested in Low Andulisia in

the

> 3rd or 2nd century B.C.

That's interesting. What's your source for that?

>Could these have been the Tungri (the name
> change to Tungri being only for the Tungri in Gaul/Germany) ?
>

In my opinion, the Tungri (after whom Tongern in Flanders was named)
were Thuringians, thus the first tribe to speak Germanic as we know
it (but note: no Germanic shift yet, it must have taken place just
after); later, as more tribes were subjugated and picked up the new
camp language, all these tribes were known as Germani. This also
meant a social revolution for them: the druids lost power, so there
was no one there to uphold proper standards for the (complicated)
language.

Torsten