From: alex_lycos
Message: 20124
Date: 2003-03-20
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:What I wonder hier, I wonder about the exactly time when they did it.
>> On the mix of Iazyges and native Germani
>>
>> http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.8.xii.html
>>
>> this is ca. 50 AD. As I thought, native Germanic
>> infantry, Iranian
>> cavalry
>
> ******GK: Certainly not "as you thought". The Iazyges
> were the recently (ca. 20 AD) relocated Metanastae,
> who occupied the plains of the Alfold (across from
> Roman Pannonia) whence they had dislodged the Dacians
> (cf. Pliny). They were Vannius' allies, not his
> subjects. There is no evidence that they brought any
> Bastarneans with them. This has nothing whatever to do
> with your "Odin" hallucinations.*******