Early Croatian names
From: george knysh
Message: 59295
Date: 2008-06-18
Putting Torsten's usual fantasies aside ("Carpi" BTW does very well as an ethnonym related to the mountains, and is neatly attested for the 3rd c.AD, and for the Gothic period if you please), and leaving the Charudes and Ariovistus where they belong, let's look at something more worthwhile.
The Croats clearly enter history as players in and around the Avar political context. C. Porphyrogenitos cites Byzantine administrative material from the the time of Heraclius[610-641] (DAI c. 30 wr. ca. 951), where he makes some interesting points: (a)The use of the term "Belochrovatia" ("White Croatia") indicates the Slavic component; but (b) The names of the leaders of the Croatian migration to their new homeland are hardly Slavic.
Does Gol/ab offer any theories as to these names?
They are (I transliterate fro0m Bury): KLUKAS. LOVELOS. KOSENTZES. MU(K)HLO. KHROVATOS (B's conjecture. Cld be something else)