Slavs

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>
> wrote:
> >
> > But tell us about the Wis?a-Odra and Carpathian
> > theories.
>
> Since I don't sympathize with either nor am particularly interested
> in finding the truth here I'd defer to the bulky literature on the
> subject. In case you doubt the very existence of these theories I
> could try and find for you some titles.
>
> But as always and everywhere, you don't need to read all those
> books, just find out which Slavic country the author is from and you
> already know where the urheimat is argued to be situated. Pre-WWII
> German authors are often also quite predictable.
>
> > Given that Torsten has Germanic near the
> > Wis?a-Odra basin and the Celts were near there in
> > Galicia, while the Dacians and Thracians were near the
> > Carpathians --the Slavs were bunched in.
>
> And why not?

Is this the 'slavischer Sumpfmensch' etc idea? I don't think you can
blame anyone for hiding out to avoid being annihilated. The Pripyat
marshes served the same purpose in WWII, afaIk. Besides, the area is
so relatively small that whichever refugee hid there (and for a long
time at that) would do well to learn the local language.


Torsten