[gothic-l] The Goths in Poland...

[Bertil Häggman]

Which Swedish vikings settled in Samland?

Gothically

Bertil Haggman

> Hi, thanks for the replies. I basically agree. I found the theory
> about the Prussian also quite 'strange'. One would have to look at
> the
> archaeological evidence cited by the author. However, I spend some
> time in Kaliningrad (former German Koenigsberg in East Prussia) where
> somebody at the regional historical archive, which has a collection
> of
> Prussian artefacts, explained to me that the Prussians (Prussen) had
> strong links with the Black Sea Ostrogoths because of the amber
> trade.
> I suppose some form of backward migration could be explained along
> these lines. A linguistic comparison of Old Prussian and Gothic would
> be difficult, as parts of the Samland (Sambia) was settled by Swedish
> Vikings and from the 11th/12th century Old Prussian started to borrow
> from German.



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