Re: Where did the Yazigi go ?

gknysh@... wrote:

> (TP) Where does the whole Sarmatian tradition in Poland stem from?
>
> GK: I believe this emerges in the 16th c. Snorri was not the
> only one with a fertile imagination. But perhaps Piotr could be
> more precise if he has time or patience to comment. In the 17th c.
> Ukrainians developed a similar theory (perhaps borrowed) about
> their ancestors (!) the Roxolanians. And in the 16th c. also
> Russian chroniclers came up with a pedigree for Ivan the terrible
> reaching back to Augustus (!).Interesting stuff but completely
> irrelevant historically. BTW Lithuanians also developed a notion of
> their state having been founded in the 1rst c. AD by refugees from
> Nero's Rome led by one Polemon (or some similar name I don't
> remember precisely). The earlier Polish chronicles don't mention
> "Sarmatism" as far as I remember.

As far as I know, the first literary manifestation of Sarmatism in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was Maciej Miechowita's _Tractatus de
Duabus Sarmatiis_ (1517), mentioned here eight years ago.

See

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/8728

Piotr