From: gknysh
Message: 65641
Date: 2010-01-14
>****GK: My point is that you have not adduced any evidence proving that the Germanic language spread from a "Przeworsk" area heartland, either from a linguistic or from any other point of view.****
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "gknysh" <gknysh@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > From a linguistics point of view,
> >
> > GK: (1)Insufficient per se.
>
> I was talking about the spread of the Germanic language. You are not making sense.