[gothic-l] Re:Heruls

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Hello Ingemar and Troels,
Ingemar, forget your idea, it won't work. Troels is quite right with his 
objections. For the Heruls I should like to draw your attention to

 Alvar Ellegard, Who were the Heruli? In: Scandia 53 (1987) pp.5-
34, 

who did quite a good analysis of the sources for them from the third 
to the sixth century, though his conclusion that they developed in 
Bavaria is a bit too sharply drawn. As far as I can see we have to 
distinguish between
 
1) the rather shadowy Black Sea/Maeotis Eluri or Heruli of the third 
and fourth century, 

2) the Heruli mentioned in the West of the Empire at the end of the  
third century, in the Notitia dignitatum and possibly still in the sixth 
century in the variae of Cassiodorus and 

3) the Central European Heruli after the end of Attila´s reign and 
their aftermath treated by Procopius.

The second and third group may be connected (there are some 
archeological signs of connections to the Black Sea region in the 
Central European material), but it is also possible that only the 
names are the same taken from the function as a warrior band 
without ethnic connections.

For the first group I would like to point out an article by

Maciej Salamon, The Chronology of Gothic incursions into Asia 
Minor in the IIIrd century. In: Eos 59 (1971) pp.109-139

and a volume on the Black Sea coast:

Die Schwarzmeerküste in der Spätantike und im frühen Mittelalter. 
Schriften der Balkan-Kommission der Österreichischen Akademie 
der Wissenschaften. Antiquarische Abteilung Nr.18 (Wien 1992, 
with two articles on the incursions by me and Eckhart Olshausen).

Kind regards
            Andreas  
Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
Tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
Fax 0043/142-77/92-72

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