--- On Fri, 1/15/10, Torsten <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> (2) Przeworsk itself was earlier Germanized by Yastorf elements
> coming in from the West and Northwest.
That's where I'm not so certain. If Celtic was an elite language, who knows what language the masses of Przeworsk spoke before the invasion of the inhumating people.
****GK: Whatever that language was ("Venedic" perhaps) it was submerged by incoming Yastorf influence (we know there was no Przeworsk before that happened)whose language was just as prestigious as Celtic. The "invasion of the inhumating people" is a fantasy which exists only in your brain. The Bastarnians had chieftains with Germanic names in the early 2nd c. BCE, and their culture (Poeneshti-Lukashivka) was created by the same Yastorf impulses which produced Przeworsk and Oksywie. The carriers were known as "Sciri" to the people of Olbia as early as 240 BCE.*****
Torsten