Re: [tied] Germanic in the east?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> >a runic inscription from
> > Kazakstan from a Scythian grave and dating from around 400-300

BCE .

> > It is
> > apparently in a Germanic tongue.
>
> We know that Germanic speakers settled in the Crimea. Kazakstan

begins at

> the Caspian, which is not that far away. But what's a Scythian

doing

> speaking Germanic? Or did he/she simply happen to possess an item

with a

> Germanic inscription on it?
>

The whole story is of course in accord with everything the
chroniclers of the various Germanic peoples said of their people,
namely that they came from the east, bringing the Germanic language
with them (eg. Snorri). This was discredited by later historians,
with no good reason. The Saka supposedly were the ancestors of the
Saxons. To settle the question, it would be nice to get a
magnification of that inscription, if possible?

Torsten