--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> You may also want to consider this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcae
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walha
>
> The whole Volcae/Walha thing has played a large role
> in the attempts
> to find some Urheimat for the Germani, since it is
> *the* word in the
> various Germanic languages for "southern foreigner",
> ie. Celt or
> Roman. The word must have been borrowed before o > a
> in Germanic and
> before Grimm (k > h, but that just means before
> appr. 50 BCE). The
> Germanic use of this word in this sense would make
> sense if the Volcae
> blocked the Wetterau passage for the Germani for
> several hundred years.
****GK: I'm presently reading Henri Hubert's master
work "The rise of the Celts". I suspect that the
Moravian localization of the Volcae mentioned in the
Wikipedia article is due to a map found on p. 151 of
Hubert. But this map seems to have been "corrected" by
one of Hubert's posthumous collaborators, Raymond
Lantier, and conflicts with many passages of the text
where Hubert writes about the Volcae. Acc. to H. the
Volcae were the most northeasterly of the known Celtic
populations east of the Rhine, and were settled in
Bavaria and Thuringia. The oppida along the
Thuringerwald and the Rhon were presumably theirs.
****
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