> ****GK: Sorry, Torsten,but this won't do. You're
> retreating into generalities. The question "Why
> Przeworsk?", rather than, say, Gubin Yastorf, has not
> been answered. And the relationship between "Berig's
> people" and "Przeworsk" even less.****
Like this:
After Ariovistus' defeat, some of the upper layer went northeast to
Jastorf and influenced that culture to become Elbe Germani. Later they
went to Denmark and Southern Scandinavia from where Berig, as part of
that layer, went to the southern coast of the Baltic.
That takes some proving. Now, shoot away.
BTW, if we assume the Gothic language came about that way we might see
Gothic as language not inflenced by Verner, but with loans that are
(fulgins etc), instead of the traditional view that Gothic was
influenced by Verner, but later regularized paradigms.
Torsten