[gothic-l] Re: Reidgotaland

[trbrandt at POST9.TELE.DK]

Hi Anders and Keth

--- In gothic-l at y..., malmqvist52 at y... wrote:
>
> I think all the threads i our discussion so far leads to a
> Reidgotaland somewhere east of Poland.
> Then I just have to accept that Keth was right from the very
> beginning regarding the aiming and "meginland".
> I e that it is the Odin realms what is south of Juteland and in one
> case also including Juteland.
> I Agree  with Dirk from a post in January that Got(a)land in some
> cases must be different from Gautland.
> I also think from this it is fairly clear where
Gotland/Reidgotaland is ----
> It seem like it is where Varva is or on the way there  and i think
it
> is Varva in Ukraine since it is east of Poland

> However, I see in the icelandic text that it is called Vorva ( with
a
> nasal o?), but maybe it makes little difference.
>
> Regards
> Anders

Fine - then I only have to agree with you, that this is a name they
used sometimes in the second part of the first millenium and up to
1200. We can't be sure that the meaning of the name originally
was "hreid"="nest", as this might be a misunderstanding connected to
something they believed at a later stage - just like both of you
proposed last night.

But how do you then interprete the remark at the Roekstone about some
men, who 9 generations ago died among the Hreidgoths? Did these men
go to Vistula to fight against the Hreidgoths or took this battle
place in Scandinavia? Or did I misunderstand the translation in
Keth's letter some days ago, when Keth also mentioned Heruls?

Troels



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