[gothic-l] Re:Heruls

[hakan36 at SPRAY.SE]

--- In gothic-l at y..., sig <sigmund at a...> wrote:

Hi Sig, Tore, Troels, Ingemar, Andreas, Keth, Tim and all of you!
I think that the Illerup finds could be interpreted as a 
danish/norwegian/gaut effort to push out west-germanic influence out 
of Scandinavia and a part of the danish expansion. I don´t say that 
this is the way it is, but Hygelacs battle COULD be rerouted to 
Jutland. West-germanics are mentioned as frisians in Beowulf and when 
they were pushed out of the small danish islands, they could have 
become known as *eyrilaR(small islanders?) and later erilaR. It could 
be the biggest 300 c Illerup battle that is mentioned as 
Hygelacs/Hugleikurs last battle. As the population grew there was a 
need for land in Scandinavia. And a attack could have been a joint 
effort between SE Norway, the gauts in W Sweden and danes. That could 
also explain the Illerup-inscription GAUT-(don´t remember it exactly).

The reconstruction of Eketorp is said to be of the 500c, but I suspect 
that it was rebuilt into a roman-style fortress in the beginning of 
the 600c. To avoid a herulic debate, which is not welcomed by the est-
ablished researchers, I think that it was comfortable to date it to 
the 500c. This is of course speculation from my side. The beginning of 
the 600c was also a period of general unrest in the whole S Scand-
inavian-Baltic sea region. 

PS Sorry once again about the crackpot theory about the 
Jarsberg-inscription and others connection to semitic fertility cults. 
It was the only picture I could find on the net. DS


Håkan Liljeberg

> Jeff!!
> 
> hakan36 at s... wrote:
> 
> > http://home9.swipnet.se/~w-93783/jarsberg/jarsberg.htm
> 
> Check out the interpretations and numerology on that page! 
> 
> 
> Sig
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


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