[gothic-l] Re: ZDF Program on the Goths

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., Tore Gannholm <tore.gannholm at s...> wrote:
> >
> >  >
> >>  Professor Birger Nerman who during the wars was professor in
> >>  archaeology in Estonia (later in charge of the Historical 
museum in
> >>  Stockholm) and supervised  many excavations there writes in
> >>  Fornvännen 1954 that from younger Bronze age he has found 
plenty of
> >>  Gotlandic artefacts and graves in Kurland, now part of Lituania,
> >>  which he takes as Gotlandic trading posts.
> >>
> >>  Tore
> >>
> >>  --
> >
> >
> >Tore,
> >
> >It is absolutely clear from the literature that the Wielbark 
culture
> >and its preceeding Oksywie culture are authochonous. They do not
> >originate in Scandinavia; they were not formed through the merger 
of
> >different cultures from Scandinavia or elswhere; they are not 
related
> >to Scandinavian culture, in fact they are very distinct in every
> >respect from Scandinavian cultures. This does not exclude the 
arrival
> >of small groups or even individuals at the end of the 1st century, 
as
> >explained by the archaeologists.
> >
> >I am not a professional historian or archaeologist, but Andreas has
> >made this point repeatedly and explicitly. Well, he is a leading
> >expert on the Goths, why don't you just believe him?
> >
> >Dirk
> >
> 
> Dirk,
> If I understand you right , you say that the Swedish Professors 
don't 
> know what they are talking about when they deal with the late 
Bronze 
> age early Iron age relations in the Southern Baltic and analyze 
> archaeological finds!!
> 
> Tore
> --

Tore,

you only understand me right when you understand that the Wielbark 
and Okcywie cultures are authochonous, meaning that they did not come 
from anywhere else, but developed locally. BTW, Nerman is an author 
of the 1940s etc. and parts of his work were based on wrong premisses 
as J. Blischke has explained in detail. 


Dirk





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