Re: The Finnic issue

> I looked back in the archives. I think this
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66976
> covers best what I think now. That would make the Sulones =
> Souiones; the Phinnoi, being next, would then be the Aestians.
> Also
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66981
>
> or the discussion starting here:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66948
>
> What do you think?
>
> ****GK: The Finns as "Aestii" in the context of the Schutte etc.
> emendations? Seems possible. But what do you make of Tacitus'
> comment that their language was "Britannicae propior"? ****

That at least part of the British population also spoke a Venetic lanuage, specifically that part which had been conquered by the Belgae, see Udolph's listing of *balg- toponyms in England in
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60821
cf
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60815

which unfortunately I haven't gotten around to translating yet.

Note also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Gwynedd
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/1159
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venta_Belgarum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgae#Britain

Stephen Oppenheimer
The Origins of the British
has a long and interesting discussions of Belgae colonization in Britain. I pointed out the Błoga etc etc connections to him but it might have been too long-winded for him.


Torsten