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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > from the fact that the tribes
> > which first crossed the Rhine and drove out the Gauls, and are now
> > called Tungrians,
>
> Turingi.
>
No, Tungri. On the Roman empire's side of the Rhine, in present-day
Belgian Limburg, there is a town called Tongeren, originally Atuatica
Tungrorum. It sports a statue of the Gaulish chieftain Ambiorix, who
revolted against Caesar and whose Eburone tribe then got exterminated
by the Romans. He saved his own skin fleeing across the Rhine. The
area was then populated by Germans from across the Rhine, the Tungri.
(It is not strictly certain that the Eburones were Celtic rather than
Germanic. Many Germanic-speakers had settled west of the Rhine and
adopted Celtic as their elite language, used e.g. in names or titles
of chieftains, but remained Germanic-speaking otherwise.)
Regards,
KE