[gothic-l] Re: The Langobards on Gotland -- and gothic proto-vikings..

[anthony.appleyard@umist.ac.uk]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, jrose at e... wrote:
> I read there once was a waterway from between the Black Sea and the
> Netherlands that the Norse people traversed, they having to haul
> their boats overland some of the way, thus their low draft design.

That sounds like the Rhine and the Danube, with some portaging in
eastern Bavaria.

A similar Viking route is what the Russians called the {put' v Varjag
iz Greky} = "road from the Varangians to the Greeks", from
Aldegjuborg (= "Ladoga Fort", where Leningrad is now) along parts of
3 of the great rivers of Russia to the Black Sea, with two portages.
Many places along that route had both Russian and Norse names: Kijev
= Koenugard = "shipyard"; Novgorod = Nygard; Ostrov#nyj Prag (some
dangerous rapids on the Dnieper; # = the hard jer) = Holmfors; etc.


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