SV: [gothic-l] Re: Germanic Migrations

[Bertil Häggman]

Dirk,

When Dahl is writing of "recent research" it would
be interesting to know what "recent research". Is it
maybe in the linguistic field? How is the place name
argument supported?

Germanically

Bertil


> Dahl argues "However, recent research has tended to associated the
> genesis of the Germanic peoples as an identifiable grouping with the
> rise of the iron technology in northern Europe, notable the Jastorf
> culture whose centre was situated in present-day Lower Saxony
> (Germany) aproximately between 600-300 BCE......places the
> (pre-Jastorf) Urheimat firmly between Elbe, the Erzgebirge and the
> Thuringian Forest, a fair distance from Scandinavia.... Scandinavia
> does not, by and large, share any of the oldest layers of Germanic
> place names."(p.5)



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