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, 12:58 PM
> > . . .
> > > 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"?
>
> Erh, so you're saying we should leave 'Goth' as
> meaning what it means
> now? I disagree, obviously.
>
>
> Torsten

Burgundians and Vandals, etc. are also lumped in with E Germanic --so now Goth is just seens as a branch of E Gmc AFAIK