Re: Djilas

--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- 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,

****GK: Kyivan chroniclers gathered info from many
sources. Kyiv had commercial relations with the
Crimean Goths and there were plenty of Scandinavians
around. Yaroslav's Kyiv manuscript library was also
available.****

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).

****GK: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........****

>
>

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