[gothic-l] Re: Names of Heruls

[Einar Birgisson]

--- In gothic-l at y..., dirk at s... wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at y..., "Troels Brandt" <trbrandt at p...> wrote:
> > --- In gothic-l at y..., dirk at s... wrote:
> > > Risiulf (who may have been a Herulic 
> > Why should they, if they returned after a few years?
> 
> 
> At another point in his works, Procopius explained that an Angian 
> princess send 100,000 warriors in 400 ships to wage battle against 
the 
> Varnians. Procopius emphasises that this is 'absolutely true'. Yet, 
> any historian will tell you that this is impossible. No ship at the 
> time could carry 250 warriors and the number of 100,000 is vastly 
> inflated at any rate, while the whole story is believed to be an 
> invention anyway. Thus, with our original source beeing the 'mother 
of 
> all guess-workers';-) some guessing must be allowed on our part as 
> well.
>  
> Secondly, I don't 'owe' Einar anything. In fact, most of my 
arguments 
> have been completely ignored by him. He jsut refuses to engage in 
any 
> of them and in declares in general terms that I have never 
presented 
> any. Anyway, I told him to look up J. Svennung in this matter who 
> explaines were authors like Jordanes and Procopius got their 
> information about the Scerefennae and Fennae from.

  Einar; Hæ, Dirk.        Of course you do not ´owe´ me anything.

 And I have not refused anything. I really take notice of your 
arguments and read carefully what you have to say.                    
 And I did not "declare in general terms that you have never 
presented any" (see above)

I meant(which I thought was obvious) that I had not seen any 
arguments from you, that were convincing enough to cast a serious 
doubt on Procopiu´s writings(about that particular subject.)
 
Bless,bless. Einar.
> 
> 



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