[gothic-l] Re: Eruli

[Einar Gunnar Birgisson <einarbirg@yahoo.com>]

Hej George.
Thanks for the info. This is very interesting, especially the
connection to Tanais (reminds me of Snorri's account of Tanakvisl).
I just wonder about these long-houses. Might it be possible to
follow the migrations of the Heruli West and then Procopius Heruli
to the North with using this building tradition!!
Einar


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh at y...> wrote:
> In a chapter entitled "The ethnic structure of the
> Chernyakhiv culture", Mahomedov devotes a few
> paragraphs to the Eastern Eruli (cf. p. 119). He
> identifies them with the following archaeological
> items: "long houses" (esp. "3-naved" ones),
> "monster"-fibulae, runic inscriptions, iron combs, and
> amphorae of the Olbian type. From c. 250 through 400,
> he thinks that the Eruli lived in scattered
> communities across Ukraine and Moldavia, but
> principally between the rivers Boh(g) and Seret, where
> 15 of the 20 known "long house" settlements have been
> excavated. M. believes that most Eruli were relocated
> to the mouth of the Don by the Huns. The archaeology
> of late Tanais (ca. 400-450) has a distinctly Erulian
> appearance. This is where, opines M., the E. acquired
> some of those steppe characteristics ("swiftness") for
> which they were later known in the West. Tanais was
> abandoned in the mid-5th c., which may be correlated
> with the Erulian participation in Attila's war with Aetius.
>
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