migration?

I know this may sound silly, and probably isn't even true,

It just occured to me that what if the Cimmerians were the ones referred
to in Norse writings
as the ones (the "Aesir") from North of the Black Sea who migrated east,
and "conquered" or settled among the Celtic inhabitants of Northern
Europe, bringing their Germanic speech with them.
(I know this is way too general and assuming to much, and just throwing
this out as a "who knows" kind of possibility), and they could have
become the Cimbri. I wonder if the the name of one Cimmerian leader,
Marcomir, could be Germanic.

If the Norse writings have any truth in them here (and they may not at
all) regarding these "Aesir", then the Cimmerians seem to have been the
only settled people from North of the Black Sea that could have migrated
West, and if they were the Cimmerians, then this could explain the
connection of the Aesir with Troy, because Cimmerians were in Asia Minor.
And it seems that there must have been some migration if we take what
Herodotus said about the Scythians driving out the Cimmerians, because
surely not all of them migrated south and into Asia Minor?


I don't expect this to be taken seriously, it just randomly occured to
me, and at the least I wonder if there was a Western Cimmerian migration.

-Michael


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