From: Torsten
Message: 65633
Date: 2010-01-13
> --- On Tue, 1/12/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:From a linguistics point of view, it's the best candidate. S Germany was archeologically Celtic before Ariovistus, NW Germany and Holland spoke NWBlock. Jastorf did not expand into S Germany. As for the ancestry of the Przeworsk language, the language of Jastorf is one candidate, but it is worrying that we can't identify any para-Germanic toponyms within its area.
>
> Germanic expansion from Przeworsk (Suevi)
>
> ****GK: This has been Torsten's mantra for years. Pity that he
> hasn't adduced one shred of convincing evidence in its favour.
> Germanic expansion eventually englobed the area of the Przeworsk
> culture ,largely created by incoming Germanics from the West and
> Northwest. And these "Przeworskers" did participate in the Suevan
> expansion to the West under Ariovistus and his successors. But the
> view that Przeworsk was the "locus a quo" is unproved fantasy.*****