[gothic-l] Home of the Langobards/Lombards

[Bertil Häggman]

Tore,

Most of the scholarly literature on the Langobards
place the original home in Skaane. Professors Birger
Nerman and J. Svennung, the German scholarly works I have
read and my contacts in Lombardy tell me that the main
bulk of the huge Italian mass of literature on the Langobards
support this.

But you are wecome to a challenge.

It is also natural to assume that Romans referred to
south Scandinavia as one or several islands. Gotland,
for instance, is way too far north to be considered, in
my humble opinion.

We can discuss further if you so wish the trading routes
with the Romans at the time of the Langobardic migration.

BTW, the Langobards were on the river Elbe around
5 AD, when they were encountered by Tiberius around
Lueneburg south of Hamburg. That makes it probable
that they migrated from Scania around the same time
as the Goths, in the first century BC. 

Yes, I agree with you on the museum in Lund.
A catastrophe if all the material from the Uppaakra
Iron Age dig would be transferred to Stockholm.
But this is typical and we are accustomed of having
our riches in this field taken away. Think of all the
runestones that were transported to Stockholm.
My hope is that the estate of Gad Rausing may be
willing to help out.

Langobardically

Bertil

> I am very curious to know what proof you have for this statement, or if it
> is only speculations based on name similarities with names we use today. We
> don't know what peoples of that time called their own areas.
> 
> What archaeological proofs are there that the Romans had contact (normally
> trading contacts) with Skåne. Did Skåne have anything that interested the
> Roman empire?
> 
> On Gotland we have various archaeological finds from the Roman Empire from
> that time.
> We know from Plinius that during the reign of Nero a Roman ember merchant
> bought plenty of ember from the Baltic area east of the Vistula river in
> Poland. Plinius also says that the merchant also visited the most important
> trading places in the Baltic area. As the trading places on Gotland were
> very important and shows remains of Roman artefacts and coins from that
> time we must presume that Goltand was included in the itinarary.
> Professor Erland Hjärne has proven that Tacitus used this notice from
> Plinius when he wrote about the people on the island in the middle of the
> Baltic sea.
> 
> I know that you have very important places in Skåne from the Viking time,
> but what important trading places did you have 900 years earlier during the
> Roman time which we are talking about just now.
> 
> I am sory to read that your authorities intends closing down your only
> historical museum.
> Tore



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