From: tgpedersen
Message: 41544
Date: 2005-10-24
>No, it was the names of three of their leaders. I'm afraid I can't
>
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> The earliest
> > possibly
> > Germanic language we know of in that direction is
> > Bastarnian (which
> > contemporary historians call mixed) and the only
> > words we know of
> > that language are three names mentioned by Gibbons
> > in "The Decline
> > and Fall of the Roman Empire" (and his sources seem
> > unrecoverable),
> > and they don't look anything Germanic.
>
> ****GK: In chapter 10 of his mag. op. Gibbon mentions
> "Peucini, Borani, Carpi, etc." in connection with the
> Bastarnae. Are these the three names you mean, or is
> there another context?===