Re: Jordanes , river Flutausis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> I am curious which actual river mentions Jordanes in his Getica

when he

> stories about the country of Gepidae . The name used by him is
> "Flutausis" and should be indeitfied with which river today?
>
> 33 (Getica)
> ..nam Tisia per aquilonem eius chorumque discurrit; ab africo vero
> magnus ipse Danubis, ab eoo Flutausis secat, qui rapidus ac

verticosus

> in Istri fluenta furens divolvitur."
> Alex

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Looking at the map, the likely candidates are the Siret and the
Prut. Is either "rapidus ac verticosus"?
My trusty Grosser Historischer Weltatlas, Teil Altertum, shows
these as the Hierasus and the Pyretus. It would take considerable
scribal error to make "Flutausis" from "Hierasus" but not much worse
than making "identified" "indeitfied".
Dan