[gothic-l] Godheimar

[Bertil Häggman]

Esteemed listmembers,

"The Germanic peoples had moved
before the Christian era, from Scandinavia to the
shores of the Baltic around the mouth of the
Vistula."

The 'East Germans' moved south ca. AD 150
to the Carpathians and the lands north of the Black
Sea.

First affected by the Hunnic advance (c. 370)
were the Ostrogoths in the Krym and Ukraine (actually
Krym is part of Ukraine today). They Ostrogoths pressured
the Visigoths across the Danubian frontier of the Roman empire
into lower Moesia (Bulgaria), where they received
permission to settle. At the battle of Adrianople (378) they
destroyed Roman powers of resistance and opened
the gates of the empire for other peoples. Visigoths first
tried to settle in Greece, then came to Italy sacking Rome in
410 and moving to found the kingdom of Toulouse. The
Ostrogoths moved first into Greece and then into Italy, where
they were in control 493.

(from The Times Atlas of World History)

The German exhibition only had three
exhibits all unrelated to the Goths but from
many other peoples, including the Gothic
Gepids.

If anybody has info on Gothic settlement on
the territory of today's Germany and how
and when they came to settle there it would
be most interesting.

Gothically

Bertil


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