>Torsten is a Snorrist ideologue.
BTW, did the "Yas" earlier the 13th century to the same Yazyg
nation (or tribal group)? I mean the Yas population that, prior to
the Mongolian invasion, fled from regions near the rivers Pruth and
Dnestr to Hungary, where they settled by the river of Tissa (German
Theiss), in the vicinity of the Cumans (who had been their neighbors
in Moldavia betw. the Carpathian range and Dnestr). The relevant
Tissa regions in Hungary are called in "Jászság" /'ya:s-Sa:g/ and
"Kunság" /'kun-Sa:g/, meaning "Yassia" (or... Ossetia) and "Cumania".
Numerous toponyms over there start with Jász- /ya:s/, e.g. Jászberény
(berény might be a trace of a lesser known Turkic tribe, the
Berendeys).
It could be that some important lexemes in Hungarian to be loanwords
from them (if not from another "layer" or from other tribes, carriers
of some Iranian dialect), such as the words for "God, lady, gold,
customs=douane, bridge" /fonetically: 'i$taen, 'asson~, 'OrOn~,
va:m, hi:d/.
George