Hi,
I read the Jomsvikingsaga. Of course the whole account may be fictional,
but if I recall correctly, they had a sea-fort at "Jomsborg" which was
on the Baltic, East of Denmark. But the Jomsvikings themselves were
mostly Danish. They formed an independent group, maybe a little
bit like the Foreign Legion would have been, if it wasn't under France.

But the sagas also tell of Danes marrying Wendish princesses, and such things.
The language of the Wends must have been slavic. And Slavic is a language
very different from Germanic. For example when I listen to Russian
broadcasts, I can only understand the words of Latin origin that they
use. Though it is true that Slavic is Indo-european, I do not easily
understand Punjabi either, which is also said to be Indo-European.

Best regards
Keth

>The Wends are at least three slawic tribes which lived in the area of east-Germany (the former GDR).
>The Obotriedes in the north, the Lutitzen in the middle (around Berlin)and the Sorbes in the south (EastThuringia and Saxonia).
>
>The Jomsvikings came from the Islands near the Oder-mouth
>Wollin (Poland) and Usedom (Germany).
>
>greetings from there
>
>Andreas
>
>norse_course@yahoogroups.com schrieb am 26.02.02:
>> The Wend's lived in the region that is now Poland didn't they?
>>
>> And the Jomsvikings?
>>
>> I'm 25% polish myself, so have been thinking of taking a peek into the
>> language, but the epigrapher in me is distracted by the Cyrillic.
>>
>> -Laz