Re: Djilas

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

>
> ****GK: Bishop Sylvester was familiar with some
> version of the story in which "Svanhild" was
> associated with three brothers, and with the Rosomoni.
> He then connected this "lebed' lady" with the river
> Lybid' which flowed west of the three hills allegedly
> occupied by the three founding brothers. The earlier
> version of the Legend did not mention a sister.
> Neither did the Armenian version. But the "Varangian"
> component of the Kyivan aristocracy would probably
> have appreciated the addition. We don't know
> Sylvester's background.****

In this case he must have been a Gotho-Varangian mongrel, for he knew
both Rosomoni (which are absent as such in Nordic sources) and the
swan etymology of the sister's name (which in Gothic sounded most
probably as *Sunja-hildi "truth-battle" or even *Sôna-hildi "atonement-
battle", i.e. had nothing to do with a swan).