[gothic-l] Erulic and Gothic Naval Warfare in the Black Sea

[bertil]

Dear listmembers,

On the Germanic L Tim has presented some material
on the Erulic and Gothic warfare based of Herwig
Wolfram in relation to a thread. I thought may be it could be of interest to introduce some alternative material
here on the Gothic L.

"During the following years (that is from 253 AD,
the Goths became a seafaring people. They organized
with great skill a fleet on the Black Sera...
They sailed through the Bosporus, landed in asia
Minor and in Greece...The Goths cooperated with
another Germanic people, the Eruli...they wer even
more skilled than the Goths as a seafaring people
and built a large fleet that operated on the Black Sea".

Professor Lars Hermodsson, _Goterna - ett krigarfolk
och deras bibel_, Stockholm: Atlantis, 1993.

Tim's interpretation of Wolfram is that it was mainly
the Sarmatians that carried out the naval warfare
between 253 and 270 AD.

Finally a few words on the sources in respect to this
early Germanic naval warfare. Besides Wolfram there
is the older work of Ludwig Schmidt, _Die Ostgermanen_
(Munic, 1934). Professor Josef Svennung in his book
_Zur Geschichte des Gothicismus_ (1967) treats
among othe rGothicisms the Austrian gothicism.
This might have influenced Wolfram. It is therefore
important to keep this in mind when using Wolfram as a
source.

Gothically

Bertil

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