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

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, Anthony.Appleyard at u... wrote:
> --- 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",



Interestingly, the Russian name is correctly translated the other way
round, i.e. way from Greece to the Varjagi.

best
Dirk




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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