[gothic-l] Runic Influences

[Tore Gannholm]

Bertil
Prokopius says the top echelon of the surviving Goths left and we don't
know to where.
Tore

>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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