[gothic-l] Gothic Archaeology was Re: Whence the Eruli

[Tore Gannholm]

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>
>Tore,
>
>Bierbrauer writes in 'Archaeologie und Geschichte der Goten vom 1-7
>Jahrhundert', p. 80
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>"Die immer wieder von der aelteren archaeologischen Forschung -eben
>wegen der spaeten Jordanes-Ueberlieferung - (fast krampfhaft)
>gesuchten Verbindung zu Skandinavien lassen sich fuer unseren
>Untersuchungsraum nich nachweisen, abgesehen von den erwaehnten
>Ausnahmen, von denen die frueheste am Ende des 1. Jahrhunderts n.
>Chr. neu aufkommende Grabsitte (Grabhuegel und Steinkreise) ohnehin
>erst in eine Zeit faellt, als kontinentale Wohnsitze von Goten durch
>die Schriftquellen laengst schon bezeugt sind."
>
>My translation:
>
>The older archaeological research has often (almost feverishly)
>sought to prove a link between the Goths and Scandinavia - especially
>because of the later Jordanes text. However, such a link can not be
>demonstrated for this area, appart for some exceptions, which were
>mentioned earlier, and of which the earliest set in only at the end
>of the first century AD (new burial custom, grave mound with stone
>circle) which dates to a time when the Goths on the continent have
>long been attested in the written sources.
>
>Dirk
>

Dirk,
Have you read Kaliffs book?

He shows that it is a common culture in the southern Baltic including
Gotland and some coast areas in present day Sweden. And there were
movements both directions.

Tore

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