From: george.st@...
Message: 26046
Date: 2003-09-26
> Piotr's closing of the Thrakai thread, justifiable as it may be,(-: A coincidence: the big splendid golden treasury of the Goths was
>precludes the possible solution of a historical problem: What became
>of the three thousand pounds of pepper that Alaric the Goth famously
>demanded as part of the ransom of Rome in A.D. 408? If Egijus'
>etymology ("place name CHIOJDENI can mean THE PLACE, INHABITANTS OF
>WHICH ARE SNEEZING") is correct, clearly we may infer that it was
>transported to Dacia, where Alaric assigned his Lithuanian cohorts
>(previously unknown) the task of grinding and repacking. :-)
>Dan