[gothic-l] Goths getting to remote places

[Anthony Appleyard]

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  Hereinafter, {H} is the sound of "ch" in German "ach" or Scottish "loch".

   Bertil Häggman <mvk575b at tninet.se> wrote:-
> Those peoples who believed in Gaut did not claim ...

What is the original source of all this about a god called Gaut? I hadn't 
heard of him before, only of the Scandinavian people called the Gautar.

The Wu-sun could have been a stray people from just about any corner of 
Eastern Central Asia.

  Brian Gendler <gendler at icdc.com> wrote (Subject: Goths in India, again):-
>   The main point of the article is that two people mentioned in a 2nd
> century inscription from India, namely Irila of the Gatas and Cita of
> the Gatas, are most likely Gothic. The Gatas, of course, would then be
> the Goths. ...

I can't connect Indian Sanskrit {Cita} with {Gatas} or {Erila} or {Helda}. 
Sanskrit {c} is {tsh},  and an Indian hearing {H} in a foreign name would 
likelier write it "h" or "kh". Also, I know that the Goths travelled far, but 
there are limits to practicability, and them getting to India in force would 
need them to stay together over many thousand miles against all enemy attacks 
and natural hazards and temptations to settle sooner, across deserts such as 
the Kyzyl Kum and Kara Kum, and all the native nomad tribes, and then across 
Iran which usually had a strong native empire. The name similarities mentioned 
above could well be stray accidental "look-alikes". I know that Alexander the 
Great managed it from the Balkans, but he had far less desert to cross, and 
breaking into Persia on the way needed three massive pitched battles (the 
Issus, Arbela, Gaugamela); any similar-sized battles between Persians and 
invading Germanic wanderers would surely have been heard of by native sources.

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