--- Rick McCallister <
gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> So, Slavic was a kind of convergence?
****GK: With East Balts forming most of the ethnic
substratum and assimilating Bastarnae much of the
upper crust. There were similar processes in the later
history of various "Slavic" groups as they
incorporated other heterogeneities. Anyway it sounds
plausible enough (like Normans+ Saxons etc.. for the
mediaeval English, mutatis mutandis, et sim.)****
Were they
> originally an elite group ike the Turks who marched
> out over the plain and incorporated substrate from
> Baltic, Germanic, et al?
****GK: I prefer the theory which derives "Slav" from
the term signifying "glory" (rather than "word"). Cf.
Pliny's "Stavani" (in exactly the right location too).
"Slavs" would thus refer to the elite warrior class
primarily.****
> I've also read of the Ante and Venedii (sp?) and of
> Iranian influence --especially on the Ante.
****GK: That's old Vernadsky stuff.****
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