[gothic-l] Re: The Gothic and Eruli Proto-Vikings

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

Bertil,

I need to find the source, but I am quite sure that this edict was
passed in the early fifth century and was intended to prevent Vandals
and Visigoths from obtaining fleets. I think it is Herwig Wolfram in
'Rom and its Germanic People' who mentions this edict. He than went on
to say that the Vandals found Roman shiprights some eager to do
business others under threat of death, who build them a fleet.

Dirk


--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, bertil <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> Den 22 Nov 2000 skrev Dirk
>
> Dirk,
>
> Yes, and it was obsolete because there
> were large Ostrogothic and Vandal fleets
> in the Mediterranean during the 5th century
> AD. If there was one, it did not work, and
> obviously the building of fleets came from
> knowledge not a massive intelligence gathering
> from the Romans, whose types of ship were useless
> anyway, because the Goths and the Eruli sailed
> and did not row.
>
> I know of no such edict during the third century
> AD.
>
> Erulically
>
> Bertil
>
> > is the edict by a Roman Emperor which threatens any Roman with
death
> > if he showed the barbarians how to built ships not instructive. It
was
> > likely Honorius but I am not sure. In any case, it seems to
indicate
> > that the Germanic tribes (the law was targeted at the Vandals and
> > Goths)in contact with the Romans did initially not know how to
build
> > ships. If they had already been known as seafaring people the law
> > would have been obsolete.


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