[gothic-l] Heruli and Iceland(Island)

Thu Sep 6 13:44:01 UTC 2001

<P> why then the islandic language is so close to
norwegian rather than german?
<P>  <B><I><A
href="mailto:einarbirg at yahoo.com">einarbirg at yahoo.com</A></I></B>
wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid;
MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><TT>I am
icelandic and I have been trying to find the roots of
the <BR>icelandic nation.(By the way the name of the
country is ISLAND not <BR>iceland.The englishmen
started to use this name in the 16th century I
<BR>think. This IS has nothing to do with ice.)The
heruli went to <BR>scandinavia in the 6th century
according to procopius.Where they went <BR>exactly is
irrevalant.Propably in danish territory.Then they went
to <BR>norway in the 8-9th centuries(or before!).They
went in the footsteps <BR>of other germanic tribes
that had settled there before(south and <BR>south west
norway).They came with theirs tradions and their wolf
<BR>names.Well in the end of the 9th century they had
to(or choose) to <BR>leave the country because they
opposed the ruling of the new powerful <BR>norwegian
king.Then they settled in iceland.The structure of the
<BR>first icelandic society was all of german
origin(not nordic).They had <BR>german law among other
things and the first law was called
<BR>Úlfljótslög.Úlfur means wolf.The first settler of
iceland was <BR>according to legend Ingúlfur.Later
that mame changed to Ingólfur.It <BR>has been a more
or less accepted truth that the nation was norwegian
<BR>in origin and the book of settlement cited as
proof of this.Today <BR>that source is not accepted
valid and this issue has be debated more <BR>or less
all this century.I will mention author Barði
Guðmundsson in <BR>this aspect.Genealogical research
shows clearly that this old and <BR>always unsupported
theory is invald.It has just been taken for
<BR>granted that we are from Norway because the old
books say <BR>so.Law,litterature,althing and the
general structure of the first <BR>society point
directly to germanic origin(not nordic) though there
<BR>were influences from nordic culture and celtic as
well.So the wolf <BR>tribe ended in island and
preserved there their great germanic
<BR>heritage,litterature and poetry.In the german poet
nibelungenlied the <BR>connecton beetween
Hungary(former heruli territory) and Island in a
<BR>very mythical perspective (of course) is
obvious.Some myths in <BR>Hungary seems to connect
hungary with the heruli and
iceland.<BR><BR></TT><BR>
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