[gothic-l] Re: Jassarfjoll

[trbrandt at POST9.TELE.DK]

Bertil,

Only one question for the moment:
Where does that "J" in Asi come from?

Venlig hilsen
Troels

--- In gothic-l at y..., Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Troels,
> 
> "You shall call them to fight
> on the Dun Heath,
> to a battle below
> the Jassarfjoll;
> there often Goths 
> have given battle."
> 
> ON "fjoll" is no greater problem being "mountain"
> Heinzel believed there could be a connection between
> the first element of the word Jassarfjoll and the
> Jasi/Alans.
> 
> Others have suggested it is the Czech ridge Jasenik=
> German Gesenke, the southeastern part of the
> Erzgebirge/Sudety Mountains. Also Johannson accepted
> this interpretation. However Rosenfeld explained it as
> *Jazaga-felisos, "the mountains of the Jazygi", a range
> to the north of Budapest, between the Bakony Forest and
> the Matra Mountains. On the other hand Otto Maenchen-Helfen
> insisted that Ptolemy was involved (Iasioi) and that the
> Jasi of Pliny, was the Roman trading town of Aquae Iasae
> (modern Varzdinske Toplice). Jassarfjoll was the range
> between the Sava and Drava rivers in Banovina (then communist
> Yougoslavia).
> 
> Franz Altheim though, proved beyond doubt that the mountains
> in question are the Alan Mountains mentioned by Ptolemy.
> 
> Sarovolsky also suggested that Jassarfjoll were the Alan Mountains
> in the Donec mountain range, south of the Donec and to the north
> of the Suxyj Torec River. It was regarded as holy (Svjatye Gory). In
> its vicinity were located the "Holy Water" Netrigus (Turkic Tengri 
su
> and the Polovcian imperial city (Carev Gorod).
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil


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