[gothic-l] Goths in the East

[Bertil Haggman]

The question of the rise and development
of the East Slavic kingdom has been researched
and debated for almost 300 years and there
are no final solutions. There is an extensive
literature. The views of Dr. Soederlind and others
present a solution to the great historical
enigma regarding the rise of the kingdom
of the Rus in the 9th and 10th centuries AD.
Anyone who attempts to present his own
views as the only ones existing, cannot support
that. There are probably hundreds of different
theories since G.F. Mueller in 1749 presented the
result of his research on the discovery of
the etymological similarity between Rus and Ruotsi.

The Gothic hypothesis and the theory of the Red-Blonde
People of Dr. Soderlind fits well into the wideranging
and often heated debate on the origins of the Rus kingdom.
The account of three brothers from Scandinavia could be
regarded as a later counterpartof the native emigration saga
of the Goths preserved by Jordanes.

Bertil Haggman

> > The people's name Goths derive from the
> > same etymological root as the ethnic names gautar
> > and gutar in Vaest- and Oestergoetland and on
> > the island of Gotland.
>
> *****GK: No reason to disagree with this*****
> >
> > (BH)The name Goths appeared early in Greek and Roman
> > literature.
>
> *****GK: I agree.******
> >
> > (BH)At the beginning of the 3rd century AD after
> > the Goths, probably migrating from southern
> > Scandinavia, settled north of the Black Sea
> > and formed the First Great Gothic Kingdom,
> > ruled by Ermanarik.
>
> *****GK: It is not at all clear that the Goths who
> settled north of the Black Sea were "migrants from
> Scandinavia". They were carriers of the Welbark
> culture which was formed on the north shore of the
> Baltic by the 2nd c. BC. What is highly probable is
> that this culture was formed with the active inclusion
> of Scandinavians esp. from Gotland.*****



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