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> GK: Clarify please. How does Bastarnia relate to "the lands of
> the Germans, which the Franks now possess."
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It occurred also to me recently that Cassiodorus/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanes /
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiodorus
might have meant the Germani/Sciri/Cimbri in Przeworsk, not the Bastarnae. As for 'which the Franks now possess', I think that was added by Jordanes as an explanation.
*****GK: The Przeworsk area is plausible. Until the beginning of the CE it ended a little to the east of Cracow, and an extensive no man's land stretching to northern Moldavia separated it from southern Bastarnia (Poeneshti-Lukashovka). It isn't well-known to Strabo, so B's activity there could be understood as occurring before he became a threat to the Romans (Strabo 7,3,11: the 'empire' established "within only a few years" seems to precede the attack on Critasirus. Jordanes' "explanation" (if that's what it was) might be understood as a comment of the extent of Burebista's eventual raids along the Danube i.e. up to the area possessed by the Franks in 551 CE.****