[gothic-l] Re: Balkan

[Håkan]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Nenad Mitovski" <mitovski at e...> wrote:

Hi Nenad!
As far as I remember there was talk about a thousand people or more 
that left the gothic area around Adrianopolis. I just recall that 
those goths, tired of the general starvation and hunger before A.D. 
378, went up and off into the balkan mountains. So maybe there 
are "lost goths", just like jewish tradition is talking about 
the "lost tribes of Israel." If I find the source, I will send it to 
you. See ya!

Greetings from



Håkan Liljeberg

         I became attracted to Gothic culture while I was trying to 
find out
> origin of some geographic names in mountains of central Balkan 
peninsula...
> Although there were numerous matches for "Gabar" (name of one 
village), that
> word and similar words in Gothic language had to draw my attention 
since name
> of that somehow hidden mountain is "German" (it is placed in north-
east of
> Macedonia among other larger mountains). It seems like name of that 
village
> could have been "Gabaur" or something close to that. Name of that 
mountain most
> likely was some old non-Germanic description of some Germanic 
people living
> there. They could have been Saxon miners, but there are no mines. 
Maybe some
> crusaders? Why would they get off of all roads and climb mountains?
>         Is it possible that some names survived since Gothic times?
> 
>         Looking through Gothic dictionaries, I've found some very 
interesting
> interactions with Southern-Slavic languages known to me and it 
could be an
> interesting subject.
>         What is the connection between Gothic word "slawan" with 
the name of
> Slavs?
>         Did Goths and Slavs mix?
> 
>         Are there any descriptions of details in physical 
appearance of Goths
> and comparison with other tribes of their times?
> 
>         Is there some list of Gothic personal names?
> 
>         I am still trying to find origin of one (personal/family) 
name common
> in central Balkan, "Scandza" :) (Sweden) and maybe some other parts 
of Europe:
> "Velin"/"Welin"/"Wellin", which doesn't sound like it is from any 
of present
> Balkan languages. There are more "mysterious" names, of course.
> 
>         History runs very slow and sometimes weird in hidden 
mountains.
> 
>         Is it possible that there are some remains of Gothic 
culture in
> mountains of central Balkan?


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