Invasion, effects

From: Torsten
Message: 67106
Date: 2011-01-17

> Re the two invasions into Denmark from the south in the beginning of
> our era and in the 200's:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66612
> I think the first one was by the Heruli
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erilaz
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heruli
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66953
> ("the masters", cf. Ernout-Meillet's 'Le mot est souvent mis dans la
> bouche des esclaves')
> which were by the second
partly, I think,
> driven out by the invading Danes
from esp. Sjælland and eastern Fyn, cf Brøndsted's text in
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66612
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes#Origins
> a people plagued by slavers (= Daoi; Daos and Geta were slave names
> in Athens);
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/11971
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66827
> interestingly, the free
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacians
> people of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costoboci
> were invaded around 170 CE.

BTW, amusing to compare this invasion history with the map here
http://ing.dk/artikel/115401-interaktivt-kort-find-jeres-skoles-matematik-karakterer
of math grades in Danish schools. The island to the right is Sjælland, the one in the middle is Fyn. My mother's family is from Jutland, my father's from western Fyn. Ah! Now I feel much better.


Torsten