[gothic-l] Re: (H)eruli

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi!
Have you read my conclusions on 
http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/parla_/svear/default.htm

Tore

>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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