Re: Kossack's Conclusions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > How about this: The Hermunduri/Turingi/Terwingi came
> > from Torun´?
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> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/50783
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> > Torsten
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> ****GK: We would need to find out if there was
> continuity of occupation in the area. I don't have any
> archaeological data on Torun at hand. The debate as to
> the origin of the name itself is still going on:
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> cf.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torun
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> The area was occupied at the time of the Lusatian
> culture [1100-400 BCE], and in early Slavic times
> [from ca.600 CE]. The town itself was founded by the
> Teutonic Knights in 1233 (on the site of the previous
> Slavic settlement). There is nothing on possible
> occupation in Przeworsk or Wielbark times.****

BTW, M. Kelkar, when trying to throw a spanner in the works of his
perceived linguistics machination, liked to point out that according
to some calculation by Don Ringe et al.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/52001
resume in
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tandy/pnas.pdf , search for 'germanic'
Germanic is behaving badly when you try to get it to fit into a family
tree for the IE languages, and one way of fixing that is to assume
Germanic wandered once from the orbit of satem, esp. Balto-Slavic
languages, into that of Italic and Celtic. Guess we'll fix that then.


Torsten