From: ualarauans
Message: 51180
Date: 2008-01-11
>May I hear some linguistic arguments for that, if you please?
> [...]
> ****GK: The most interesting recent theory is that of
> Shchukin. He thinks the Slavs self-constituted ca.
> 50-250 AD in the East Baltic areas north of the
> Prypjat' and Desna. One of the thoughts I had in this
> connection is that the significant so-called "Gothic"
> words present in Old Common Slavic might have actually
> been the contribution of the Bastarnae (this is yet
> unverified).
> Shchukin accepts the view that Bastarnae
> were an important component of Slavic
> ethnogenesis.****