Taurisci (Was:Re: Kossack's Conclusions)

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

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > > I was wondering why Jordanes thinks Burebista
> > attacks the Germans,
> > > >
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> http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/Goths/Goths1.htm
> > > > whereas Strabo thinks he attacked the Taurisci.
> > > >
> > >
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> http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/7E*.html
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> > > GK: Perhaps Jordanes believed that Burebista's
> > > great expedition against Critasirus went as far as
> > > Raetia, which in his time was part of Frankish-ruled
> > > Swabia. Not at all impossible.
> >
> > Erh, hm, well, perhaps not.
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> ****GK: Particularly since Jordanes thought the Getae
> (Dacians) were Goths(:=)))*****

I think you mentioned that before? On the other hand, if
Goth/Geat/Jute is a substrate word which stands for some nondescript
native population, Getae may belong there too. As you remember, in
order to derive all Germanic from Thuringian Przeworsk I made Berig et
al. bring writing and the corresponding language to the illiterate
Goths of Wielbark.


Torsten