[gothic-l] Re: Beowulf and the Geats

[Ingemar Nordgren]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, "Philip Rusche" <ruschep at n...> wrote:
 And regardless of speculation on the names Geat/Gaut and 
Goths,> I am not convinced, nor are many other people, that they refer 
to the same> people. 
> 
> Philip Rusche

Philip,

To say Goths, Geats, Gutar and Ýtas (Jutes) all mean Goths does not 
imply that they belong to the same people. Try to understand there 
probably were several peoples regarding themselves as Goths - several 
Gothic peoples. This is the new interpretation I have come up to in my 
book showing that the unifying factor was the common ancestry from 
Gaut - a religious unity and not a political. The Vistula Goths merely 
was one of the Gothic peoples with close connections to the others and 
having originated from all of them.

Kindly
Ingemar



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