[gothic-l] An Argument for the Eruli Being a Gothic People

[Bertil Haggman]

After the contribution underneath I think
it would be of value to try to decide if the
Eruli is a Gothic people. Undoubtedly Prokopius
designated them as such. He did not include them
though among the most important Gothic peoples.

Other writers clearly classed the Eruli with
the Goths. See Scriptores Historiae
Augustae. Jordanes for instance regarded
the Gepids as closely related to the Goths.

Based on these grounds I would suggest that
we can discuss the following peoples on the
Gothic-L:

Goti
Ostrogoti
Visigoti
Eruli
Gepidi

More doubtful is
Alani
Rugi
Skiri

although Prokopius sometimes include
them among the Gothic peoples. The Alani
are of course a steppe people but the Rugi
and Skiri might well be regarded as Gothic
peoples.

It would be interesting to know the views on the
list for regarding the above mentioned peoples
as "Gothic" and therefore legitimate subjects
on the list. After all the lack of discussion lately
on the Goti (for a period) ought not to be a reason
for excluding a debate on the Eruli. For myself I
am trying to connect in my contributions to the
Goti and Gothic texts, the Gautoi/Goti in Goetaland
and so forth plus the cultural closeness of the
Eruli and the Goti.

Gothically

Bertil

> Since about 150 of the last 180 posts have been on the subject of the
> Eruli (or Heruli), shouldn't the name of this list be changed to
> Erulic-l or Herulic-l? :-P



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