[gothic-l] Scandinavia and Scania Nos 2 - 6

[john gregory presco]

Pardon me if I come in on a group I have not posted on, or been following
for very long, but I am looking for the island the Langobards are said to
have come from. My 'Smith's Bible Dictionary' has the Hebrew word Ashkenaz
"spreading fire" meaning Scand-ia, Scand-inavia. "Knobel considers that
the Ashkenaz is to be identified with the German race." The Lombards are
said to be Germans. Ashkenaz was one of the three sons of Gomer, son of
Japhet.

JGP

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Bertil Häggman wrote:

> 2. The Latin Name Scandia
> 
> Besides Scadinavia Pliny uses Scandiae for islands in the
> northern part of the ocean. In the second century Ptolemy
> speaks of the four Skandiai, the largest of which, Skandia
> proper, is furthest to the east. He obviously refers to the
> Danish islands and Skaane (Scania) (and the territory north 
> of it). Jordanes (551 AD) uses the vulgar Latin pronunciation
> Scandza. The island of Scandia is identical with the island
> of Scadinavia. Pliny several times mentions the same thing
> twice, but under different names, because he has taken
> items of information from different sources. Similarily Jordanes
> refers to the same tribes by different names.
> 
> 3. 'The Dangerous Islands' in the Nordic Ocean
> 
> The Danish islands and even more Skaane have well deserved
> the name of 'dangerous' because of the shallows (sandbanks)
> of the small peninsula in the south-western part of Skaane,
> where to-day the small towns of Skanoer and Falsterbo are
> situated. The sandbanks are continually changing and moving
> unpredictably because of the sea currents. At the beginning of the
> Christian era this region was still more dangerous, since, at
> that time, the peninsula was largely under water (the sealevel
> was then one or two meters higher than now); due to drift-
> sand it has now reached a height of about two metres.
> 
> 4. The Relationship Between the Forms Scadinavia and Scandia
> 
> Scandia has arisen from *Scadnia through metathesis.
> *Scadnia stands to Scadinavia as Austria to Austeravia. 
> It is formed from *Skathni, an adjectival form of *skathin,
> which in its turn is a so-called 'suffixablaut' of the stem
> *skathan. I think that Scandinavia is a confusion of Scandia and
> Scadinavia.
> 
> 5. The Sound Development *Skathinawjo > Skaane
> 
> In the development of the form Skaane, after the disappearance
> of i through syncope, th (not dh) disappeared after a short a:
> *Skathn- >Skan- (with 'ersatzdehnung').
> 
> 6. The Place-Name Skanoer
> 
> The Falsterbo peninsula, well-known to all sea-farers
> in Oeresund, off which the Falsterbo bank is situated,
> has been given the name of Skan-or, probably derived
> from the same *Skathn- and or 'sand-shore'. The Scanian
> Skánoer (with long a) later had its stress changed to Skan'ör.
> 
> Scanially
> 
> Bertil
> 
> 
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