[gothic-l] The Scandinavian Origin of the Goths

[bertil]

Den 28 Sep 2000 skrev null:

What is it in Ulrich that
points to an origin of the
Germanic peoples in Germany?

During the national socialist
era in Germany the argument
was of course put forward that
the origin of all Germanic
peoples was in Germany. But
post-1945 there have only been
a few attempts to claim this
origin. And what is your view
on Jordanes' claim that the Goths
originated in Scandinavia (Scandza)?

Of course Scandinavia today is
on the outer fringes of Europe,
especially in relation to EU.
But that was not always the case
especially not in the period between
500 BC and 1000 AD.

Gothically

Bertil Haggman

> One source of the Spiegel article,
(der Spiegel is of course not an
> academic journal) is Juergen Udolph.
His 1036-pages study of Germanic
> names (Namenkundliche Studien zum
Germanenproblem), Walter de Gruyter
> Verlag Berlin, provides the
substantiation of the mere statements, as
> you call them, about the origin of
the Germanic culture and people.
>
 Scandinavia is simply not in the
> centre of Europe and at the cross-roads
of different cultures, which
> nation-buiding theory see as a requirement
for the formation of
> cultures and identities. Scandinavia certainly has a rich and
> interesting history nobody would dispute that.



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