[gothic-l] Re: The Langobards on Gotland

[jrose at EFN.ORG]

King Henry the second claimed he was descended from Trojans, he kin
to the Merovingians. He built a Labyrinth, a 'Troy Town' for Fair
Rosamond.

Jon


> --- In gothic-l at egroups.com, keth at o... wrote:
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>
> Hello Keth,
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> >
> > What list is that?
>
> It's the Germanic history list, where this discussion belongs to.
>
> I am on too many lists already, and I think
> > too much diversification tends to scatter the resources.
>
>
> I totally agree!
>
>
>
> > Could you give the address of that list one more time?
>
> Try:
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> http://www.egroups.com/group/Germanic-L
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>
> > btw does Menghin mention Welzen?
>
> I don't know if Wolfgang Menghin mentioned Uelzen. If he wrote
about
> he Langobards in North Germany recently he certainly would have.
More
> famous are the Langobardic cemetries near Luechow-Dannenberg and
along
> the southern banks of the Elbe river.
>
>  What is more, he adds the
> > information that the Baltic island they used to
> > live on was Gotland. That, I thought was an interesting
> > piece of information!
>
>
> Yes I agree. And it does not  contradict the archaeology which I
> reported earlier either provided that this migration group of early
> Langobards was quite small. In general, different sources have to
be
> considered including archaeology, especially as we never know what
> people remembered about their origin after some 700 years have
passed.
> As I said earlier, if we  would only rely on the tribal histories
we
> would have to believe that the Franks came from Troy and that the
> Burgundians are decended from Romans. In all likelyhood we will
never
> know the truth.
>
> Dirk


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