[gothic-l] Runic Influences

[Bertil Häggman]

Tore,

Personally I don't think the Ostrogoths left
Italy but merged into what later became
Italy.

Maybe you are stretching the archaelogical
interpretation a bit to far.

Gothically

Bertil

 Here follows an extract from "Origin of Svear"
>
>
> "Another interesting note in Prokopios is that after the capitulation at
> Vesuvius, that in 552 ended the Ostrogotic power in Italy, the Goths that
> so wished were allowed to stay as peaceful farmers in Italy. As Prokopios
> uses the word Goth about all before this time in Italy living Germanic
> people, the above note refers probably to those who already before the
> arrival of the Ostrogoths had received the "Herulian lots". Another part of
> the Goths - and here he probably means the Ostrogoths, that is those who
> had been responsible for the deposed rule - did not want to stay. They left
> Italy and we don't know where they went.
> However, it is very possible that those Goths went to England where the
> finds in the graves at Sutton Hoo should remind us of them. In the Beowulf
> poem, considered written down i England in the 8th century, the Gutar are
> called "Getae" and the Gothic history "Getica". This could explain the link
> between the Gutar and Sutton Hoo. Probably the Gutar continue their earlier
> connections with their cousins the Ostrogoths. In the grave chamber's
> eastern part were found a long row of domestic vessels inter alia two bowed
> bronze vessels of the Gotlandic type with a flat unfolded front edge and
> twisted iron handles. Swords and cultural artifacts that have been
> manufactured in Gotlandic workshops during that time, can be found in
> several Gotlandic graves, are closely related to corresponding English art.
> Professor Sune Lindqvist says: "It is obvious that the comparison between
> the grave findings from Sutton Hoo and the contents of the Beowulf poem was
> well justified and contains great possibilities. It is obvious that those
> two documents in a splendid way complete each other. Both win in clearness
> when compared."
> To support the idea of Ostrogotic involvement in Sutton Hoo a very large
> silver pan was found. There are two countermarks on the base of the
> silverpan from the time of Caesar Anastasius. He ruled over the Eastern
> Empire between the years 491 and 518 i.e. when the Ostrogoths ruled Italy.
> The pan was accordingly already an antiquity when it was placed in the
> grave in East Anglia."



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