From: tgpedersen
Message: 59864
Date: 2008-08-25
>Which are the Turingi.
> --- In 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-dayThat statue is an affront to my family which comes from the capital of
> 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 ratherWe don't know that.
> 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.)