[gothic-l] Re: Surviving Ostrogoths?

[tiefi at YAHOO.COM]

Hi all,

Some historians mention in footnotes, that the last Ostrogothic
rebels moved north into the Alps.

There has been a quick Bajuvarian southward advance and around 650
they'd already reached and settled the area of Salurno/Salurn.

Could there be a connection?
This region is easily defended, very fertile and can bear a big
population easily.
There are placenames thought to be Gothic in this area and around the
Garda lake.

And some Bavarian dialect words may descend from Gothic, as mentioned
above by others.

Are there already linguistic studies on the "Cimbric" settlements in
the Southern Alps regarding Gothic/Langobardic influence? (Sette
Commune etc.) Or is their 13th century movement proven?

Other "last ressorts" may have been the Valtellino/Veltlin or
Carinthia/Kaernten but there is no evidence of any Germanic people,
despite some Langobards in Valtellino, after 600

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excursio on "exotic" flight routes:

one hasn't been mentioned, and I bet you haven't heard about it
before:
in a 19th century Enciclopedia, "Mayers Konversationslexikon" about
1870, the Guanches of the Canaries are mentioned as the last
descendands of the Vandals, who fled the Justinian invasion.
If this is theoretically possible, they knew about the "lucky
islands" before, and if they knew, their neighbours, Visi- and
Ostrogoths, might have known, too.

Yours Survivingly Gothically



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