[gothic-l] Re:Heruls

[hakan36 at SPRAY.SE]

> Håkan Liljeberg wrote:
> Right east(5km)of Sösdala, you can find the village of Rickarum.
> > It> means "the warriors place"(*Rinkarum). As far as I remember 
it´s
> > of> west-germanic origin. Outside Kristianstad is Rinkaby 
situated and
> > the next related name is south of Kalmar, Rinkestaholm. And then
> > there is a big jump, almost 500 km up to the next Rink-village. In
> > the Mälarvalley you find several like Rinkesta, Rickeby and
> > Rinkeby> etc. Denmark has one namely Rynkeby. I think that these 
names
> > represent a large garrison of warriors and maybe also a local 
earl or
> > warlord.
> 
> Hej Håkan,
> 
> I think you should forget these ideas. Rink- is the same as Ring-. 
Look
> for example at Ringkarleby in Oestergoetland and Naerke. Try to 
shorten
> it and you get Rinkaby. Originally it was the  Ring Mens Village, 
i.e.
> the warriors initiated to the god and wearing an oath-ring 
(Kolbenring.
> Rinker means shortly ringkarl which of course means a warrior - 
that far
> I agree. I have written an article about this in Migracijske Teme, 
nr.
> 1-2, Zagreb 2000, ISSN:0352-5600  and it is also treated shortly in 
my
> newly published book "Goterkällan-Om goterna i Norden och på
> kontinenten", Historieforum Västra Götaland, Göteborg 2000, ISBN:
> 91-973891-2-9. I have till now found 412 places with that type of 
name
> in Scandinavia and 265 in three groups on the continent that might 
be of
> Nordic origin. The names you mention are included with exception of
> Rinkarum, which means Ring-home and corresponds to Ringarum. It 
makes a
> new total of 413 so far. Thanks for that. Those names must with
> necessity be linked to the cult of Óðinn-gaut and interestingly 
enough
> there is also a correlation to the spread of standing stone circles 
from
> Norway down to the Weichsel-area and from Bornholm to the Elbe-Rhine
> area. They have nothing specially with Heruls to do, nor with a
> garrison.It was just the local cultic organisation of the warriors
> league and the schamanistic demon hunters league, that hunted away
> demons from the fields  to keep them fertile. The spiritual and 
secular
> power those days was the same.

Hej Ingemar, 

I have seen similar thoughts somewhere about Rink, Rick-names 
connected with warriors of a higher class. Your ideas seems very 
realistic, and interesting. We can probably both agree that these 
names might reflect an idea that could be connected with a feudal 
system with a earls/warlords and warriors. The sixth headline "About 
golden rings and necklaces", seems very interesting in this respect.
In almost all these areas have been found "erilaR"-inscriptions, and 
the latest I´ve heard was that also one had been found at Bornholm, 
but I don´t remember the source. Far down in that page, you will also 
find a great picture of the Järsberg-stone, in Värmland, right at the 
old border between "swiones" and "geats", with the "erilaR"-
inscription. Somewhere on that site you will also find a map of the 
necklaces and "erilaR"-inscriptions made in northern Europe. 

Furthermore there might be a connection with large grave-fields also 
in stone-ring formations. One such formation, you can find 1 km north 
of the city-center in Höör, just right of the main road. The SW point 
of a square with Vätteryd-Sösdala in NW, Rickarum in the NE and 
Fulltofta in the SE. There is a possibility that they are all 
connected. What is more likely than that the heruls brought a feudal-
warrior system to all these places.

http://catshaman.tripod.com/22erils1/01Romans2.htm


Greetings from



Håkan Liljeberg


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