Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59971
Date: 2008-09-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "koenraad_elst" <koenraad.elst@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.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.

I thought so.
http://tinyurl.com/6gtowm
http://tinyurl.com/5npse2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heruli
and, by some Alexander M. Rackus
http://www.northvegr.org/lore/guthones/011.php
(who is this Lazius character, BTW? Is this source genuine.
particularly his Herulian, apparently Baltic Lord's prayer?)

So Heruli, not Goths.


Torsten