Re: [tied] Snorri on "Odin's journey"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > GK: Which of the sites you mention earlier
> > are
> > > considered Sarmatian? (I had asked you this
> > earlier).
> >
> >(TP) ?? I thought that was the question I should ask
> you?
>
> *****GK: You offered a long list of sites in Poland
> and elsewhere, but only one of them was directly noted
> as "Sarmatian". I was wondering if your source had
> mentioned others, and if it provided some description
> of the inventory.*****

I'm afraid not. All the finds were annotated with references to
relevant literature. If you're particularly interested in any of the
finds, let me know now; the library just recalled the book.

>
> > > GK: ... many
> > fibulae
> > > of the "Latenized" cultures (this includes
> > Przeworsk
> > > and Oksywie) are of an "inter-regional"
> > > character.
> > > >
> >
> >(TP) So that we might wonder if they were carried by
> > "inter-regional"
> > peoples ;-.
>
> *****GK: By "inter-regional" is meant that they
> represent a certain style adopted by a number of ethna
> and/or distinct groups in a "region" (for instance
> "along the Danube" or "from Elbe to Dnister" or the
> like) and are not ethnically determined.

Interpretation.

>Sometimes the
> origination of a style can be traced to a particular
> ethnic group (like La Tene to the Celts),or the
> polychromic jewellery style to the Sarmatians
> [actually Greek masters working for the Sarmatian
> market in many cases] but once an item becomes
> "inter-regional" you need more than it to label
> ethnicity. The specific burial rite, or other
> "ethnically identifiable" objects are infinitely more
> useful in this regard than the presence of an
> "inter-regional" fibula in the inventory.*******
> >

It makes sense of course from a professional achaeological point of
to be cautious in ascribing ethnicity to particular finds, but it's
difficult not to speculate on how those finds ended up where they did.

Torsten