[gothic-l] Goths and Scandinavia

[Sahin Ahmet]

 My opinion is that since germanic branching is so young and seems to be starting from some time on, a geographically isolated region like north scandinavian shore would be a possible origin of the goths. just a theory!  Poland as a plain land in my opinion can not be an original place preserving cultural unity.  
  Ingemar Nordgren <ingemar.nordgren at ebox.tninet.se> wrote: 
There has been some negative comments concerning connections Goths and 
Scandinavia as answers to Al. In some cases Al evidently has 
misunderstood the Goths activities, indeed, but there still remains a 
lot of Scandinavian  traces. You simply can not regard the Scandinavian 
hypothesis as obsolete even if some new Anglo Saxon and German books 
claim that. Bertil has pointed out other alternatives ( I am not 
referring to Musset) and I could add my own doctoral thesis from 1999, 
as revised book 2000, "The Well Spring of the Goths", still only in 
Swedish,sorry to say, and also the Swedish archaeologist docent Anders 
Kaliff with his Gothic Connections. Professor Erik Nylén of Gotland has 
also written a lot about Scandinavian/Gotlandic Goths and even Hachmann 
has agreed the Nordic peoples are Goths - not only the Vistula Goths. 
Yurij Knysch also had some good arguments for a Nordic connection. 
Herwig Wolfram also sees the connection. Another question is, of course, 
if the Goths are a single folk or a number of different peoples as I 
claim. I could not resist jumping into the debate but I have no time to 
  continue now because I am still working on a paper  and   being busy 
arranging the preparations for parttaking in an international conference 
about Icelandic Sagas. I wish everybody a good summer already now 
because I will just pop up now and then. I just file the digests for 
later treatment.

Best regards
Ingemar




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