[gothic-l] Re: Polish Views On the Goths - Prussians?

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> 
> I have not seem any claims of Prussian connection. When
> exactly would that be in the timeframe of settlement and
> the Wielbark culture?
> 
> Germanically
> 

Bertil,

I only know the article by Urbanzcyk on this, who seems to think that 
some Goths remigrated from the Black Sea to the southern shores of 
the Baltic Sea. I have no idea what their evidence or timeframe is. I 
haven't seen anything in the western literature on this either.

Dirk


> Bertil
> 
> What do you 
> > think about the proposition of merging of Gothic-germanic 
traditions 
> > and Baltic traditions to form the (Old) Prussians (Prussi). I 
spend a 
> > lot of time in today's Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) former East 
Prussia, 
> > where archaeologists told me a similar story based on their 
> > excavations of Prussian grave sites. At the time I could not 
really 
> > make much sense of it, but the article by Urbanczyk seems to 
indicate 
> > that this is the view of local archaeologists and historians.


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