From: Torsten
Message: 65642
Date: 2010-01-14
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/56782
> > --- 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.
>
> ****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.****