[gothic-l] Jassarfjoll

[Bertil Häggman]

Troels,

"You shall call them to fight
on the Dun Heath,
to a battle below
the Jassarfjoll;
there often Goths
have given battle."

ON "fjoll" is no greater problem being "mountain"
Heinzel believed there could be a connection between
the first element of the word Jassarfjoll and the
Jasi/Alans.

Others have suggested it is the Czech ridge Jasenik=
German Gesenke, the southeastern part of the
Erzgebirge/Sudety Mountains. Also Johannson accepted
this interpretation. However Rosenfeld explained it as
*Jazaga-felisos, "the mountains of the Jazygi", a range
to the north of Budapest, between the Bakony Forest and
the Matra Mountains. On the other hand Otto Maenchen-Helfen
insisted that Ptolemy was involved (Iasioi) and that the
Jasi of Pliny, was the Roman trading town of Aquae Iasae
(modern Varzdinske Toplice). Jassarfjoll was the range
between the Sava and Drava rivers in Banovina (then communist
Yougoslavia).

Franz Altheim though, proved beyond doubt that the mountains
in question are the Alan Mountains mentioned by Ptolemy.

Sarovolsky also suggested that Jassarfjoll were the Alan Mountains
in the Donec mountain range, south of the Donec and to the north
of the Suxyj Torec River. It was regarded as holy (Svjatye Gory). In
its vicinity were located the "Holy Water" Netrigus (Turkic Tengri su
and the Polovcian imperial city (Carev Gorod).

Gothically

Bertil


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