[gothic-l] Germanic Migrations

[Bertil Häggman]

Dirk,

In my opinion the three categories are

1) historian
2) archaelogist
3) linguist

Of course linguists have their importance and
as a matter of fact their methods often can learn
historians and archaeologists one or two things.
The linguistic material you present are of course
interesting but I think you are drawing to wide
conclusions from them. To be of real value
they have to be combined with the views of
historians and archaelogists. It would be interesting
to know if any of the material you are introducing
has found its way into history books in England
and Germany. I can assure you that it hasn't in Sweden.
You may well call me speculator if you want, I still
think historic research counts, and counts importantly.

Germanically

Bertil

> linguist are often in the happy situation of working with 'the real
> thing'. As you know, names, i.e. place names are the graveyards of
> languages and linguists can be the archaeologists of languages. For
> scientists such as the mentioned persons who have all presented major
> , recent contributions to the field by presenting real evidence, being
> called 'speculators' is quite insulting to them. I think it would be
> better to engage with the evidence and provide counter evidence
> otherwise you could run danger of being called a speculator yourself.



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