RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

> Another hypothesis proposed at a seminar in Lidköping 1990 was that
> the Gothic invasions were merely consisting of warlords of
> professional soldiers of heterogenous nationality forming plundering
> bands taking advantage of the collapse of the Roman state and that
> these soldiers called themselves the "lads", the "guys": cf.
> Norwegian "guter" which is lautlich compatible with "Goths".
>

At this same seminar a hypothesis of the "heruli" was that they were
the warlords themselves: "eruli" connected to "earl", "jarl".

Lars