Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 2:08 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Erik Smit"
> <cuergomamotorist@...> wrote:
> >

. . .

> I think 'Goth' is a pre-Germanic word which is
> identical to the word
> 'Jute' and that it designated the various
> pre-Germanic peoples. The
> emigration to the southern Baltic shores was made by
> disgruntled
> natives opposing the new regime in Scandinavia, but since
> their
> leaders were literate in the new language of their
> oppressors they
> ended up speaking a dialect of that.

Or, better yet, could Goth be a designation of the "Eastern Germanic People"?

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