[gothic-l] Re: An Erulic Royal Genealogy

[faltin2001]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Bertil Haggman" <mvk575b at t...> wrote:
> When the recent debate started on the Eruli Troels did put
> up a number of royal Eruli names on the list.
>
> Underneath is an attempt to create an Eruli royal genealogy based
> on Procopius and the runestones on the Lister Peninsula in western
> Blekinge province of Sweden.
>
> Eruli Kings
>
> *Hrothawulf(a)R, died around 505 AD
>
> His daughter *Silingu, married to a Lombard king
>
> *Hok(a)R (Oxos, see underneath), died around 545 AD
>
> Datios, which is a non-Nordic name, is unknown but had a
> brother *HahawardhuR (?) (=Aordos, see underneath)
>
> Haeruwulf, one of the kings during the remigration to Thule
> in 512 AD
>
> Hathuwolf and Hariwolf, Kings of the Eruli in the Vaerend-Lister
> kingdom in Scania Province, Blekinge Province and Vaerend District,
> Smaaland province. The Stentoften, Gummarp and Istaby runestones
> as well as the now disappeared Flegehall inscription were erected
> some time during the period 512 - 545 AD.



As Tore said earlier, it is worth pointing out that these runic
stones are dated to the 7th or even 8th century. Thus, Hathuwolf and
Hariwolf were anything but Erulic kings, because Eruli ceased to
exist in the middle of the 6th century.




>
> There are two names that do not sound very Nordic: Oxos and Aordos.


The writing Oxos seems to be a mix-up of Latin and Greek letters. The
Greek 'x' should be transliterated into 'ch'. As Sonderegger pointed
out, Procopius' Ochos is a commonly known Persian name of his time
and can not be emendated into a Germanic name.



> Datios no doubt is a transcriptional mistake made by some scribe.

Why is there 'no doubt'? Of course it has to be a mistake, because it
does not fit the favourite theory;) Datius was a common Roman name at
the time. There is no reason to expect an error.



> There is no way this name can have a Nordic origin.


That is true.


>Oxos could be
> traced to HokaR/Hocr.


Not if you ask serious linguists.


cheers
Dirk


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