[gothic-l] Re: Eruli near the Rhine

[andreas.schwarcz at UNIVIE.AC.AT]

Dear Tore and Dirk,
all our informations about the western Eruli in 287 go back to the 
Panegyricus of Mamertinus for the Emperor Maximian, where they 
are named together with the otherwise unknown Chaibones (and 
Alamanni and Burgundiones). Mamertinus does not give any 
information from where they came, just calls them "viribus primi 
barbarorum, locis ultimi", which is the cause of all speculations 
about their origin, often combined with this long-discussed citation 
of Jordanes about the Dani. As I showed,  the latter cannot be 
applied to them, the "locis ultimi" are quite rightly usually 
combined with an arrival over the sea. Schmidt identified the 
Chaibones with the Aviones and localized those in eastern Holstein.
>From somewhere along the coast eastwards the Eruli  surely 
came, but we cannot really be sure from where. After their defeat 
they were stationed near the Batavi and the Schola palatina 
bearing their name in the Notitia Dignitatum was recruited from 
them.

Kind regards
                    Andreas
Ao.Univ.Prof.Dr.Andreas Schwarcz
Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
Universität Wien
Dr.Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
Tel.0043/1/42-77/272-16
Fax 0043/142-77/92-72


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