[gothic-l] Re: (H)eruli

[hrafnsnest]

Hail Tore!
My apologies.  I mistook "..British isles - Island.", for Iceland.  
What type of things are they finding at these sites that would 
indicate they were (H)eruli? 
Odhvaknir 

> I never indicated that the Heruls moved to Iceland. This is 
something 
> that Einar  Birgisson has brought up. You have to ask him for his 
> sources.
> 
> I have only stated that there is an immigration of a ruling class 
to 
> the Lake Mälar area beginning 6th century. Later that century the 
> rulers of the Lake Mälar area together with the Gotlanders 
> established colonies on the East coast of the Baltic. Excavations 
in 
> Grobin, Apuole and Elbing.
> In the 9th century they extended their travels to the Russian 
rivers 
> and we find large Scandinavian gravefields.
> 
> Tore
> --


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