[gothic-l] Ablabius found!!

[yeshua666]

(Crossposted from Germanic-L)-

Any of you who read soc.history.medieval would be familiar with
Inger E. Johansson - a Swedish kook who likes to make wild claims
about her amazing research and then runs away when asked for evidence
(she claims people keep stealing her ideas - she also claims that
some of her posts in which she is caught telling lies are actually
forgeries.  We suspect she needs some professional help).

Anyway, her latest claim is that Jordanes' major source for his
*Getica* - Ablabius - is not lost at all:

"Ablabius isn't lost, his work still exist in two monestries I have 
been told and also seen photocopies of(I will return to this later) 
one on an island in Greece where only monks live and one in a monestry 
on the border between Irac and Turkey.

The photocopies I have seen have the same text as exists in a Swedish 
13th Century source, mostly forgotten.... Forntida Svenska legender 
written by Pater Stephanus of Skänninge(Östergötland) where he 
translated into Swedish information given by early historians. The 
book still exists in one copy privately owned in Linköping. I saw it 
once when my class and one of our teachers were allowed to see it in 
1960's. I have photocopies of parts of it. In those copies special 
information regarding Konstantin the Great's chapel in Arles and 
Konstantin the Great's mother and Ablabius himself is
given."

What do you make of these claims?

Tim O'Neill


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