Re: [tied] Re: Gesundheit!

george.st@... wrote:

>> Piotr's closing of the Thrakai thread, justifiable as it may be,
>> 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
>
> (-: A coincidence: the big splendid golden treasury of the Goths was
> unearthed almost in the same region (at a site called - another
> coincidence - Pietroasa). :-)
>
> Xundheit,
> George

which tresury is seen by now for several more scholars as not being of
Gothic origin.
The runic inscription was and is stil an object of discution between
scholars.
Some want to read there "vulcan me fecit" ( N.Densusianu)

Alex