Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

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From: koenraad_elst <koenraad.elst@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:30:29 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@... s.com, James Dow Allen <jamesdowallen@ ...>
wrote:

>
> The 6th-century historian Procopius explicitly
> writes of a 5th-century defeat of Heruli-Goths
> in Illyria by Romans, after which some Goths,
> led by their royalty and presumably accompanied
> by Sarmatians or Huns, journeyed back to Thule.
> Snorri's stories refer to Huns, and there is
> even a curious parallel involving the display
> of a severed head, between a myth of Odin
> and the factual slaying of Gainas by Uldin the Hun.
>
>

There used to be a book in the 1960s, by some Magnusson or so,
titled "The Origin of the Icelanders", which traces the Icelanders to
these Goths who had first settled in SE Europe, then returned
northward, remained a Fremdkoerper in Scandinavian society, and then
found a place of their own in Iceland. For what it's worth.

KE

That kind of counter-factualism take guts, especially considering the detailed genealogies of the Icelanders, which are so detailed that they also work for Scottish and Norman genealogy. The Icelandic genealogies all go back to Norway, where many were on the losing side of the struggles for the consolidation of Norway under one king. Before that, some of the lines go to Sweden and Denmark, but that's as far afield as they go.