[gothic-l] Re: Jordanes and the Scandinavian Eruli

[george knysh]

--- "Troels Brandt <trbrandt at post9.tele.dk>"
<trbrandt at post9.tele.dk> wrote:
> >  This could even
> > > be an event
> > > connected with the escape of Roduulf to the
> court of
> > > Theodorich -
> > > making it very relevant to be mentioned in this
> way
> > > and in this
> > > chapter of Getica - with Roduulf as the source
> > > before 519 AD.
> >
> > GK: Jordanes: "sunt quamquam et horum
> positura
> > Grannii, Augandxi, Eunixi, Taetel, Rugi, Arochi,
> > Rauii, quibus non ante multos annos Roduulf rex
> fuit,
> > qui contempto proprio regno ad Theodorici Gothorum
> > regis gremio convolavit et, ut desiderabat,
> invenit,
> > hae itaque gentes, Germanis corpore et animo
> > grandiores, pugnabant beluina saevitia."  How
> would
> > you relate the departure of Roduulf from his
> kingdom
> > with the expulsion of the Eruli by the Dani?
>
> The scholars do not agree which people he ruled but
> most of these
> people have been placed as small groups in the
> borderareas of the
> Goetes. ONE possibility is that the Danish attack on
> the Heruls
> changed the balance in the region, and made him a
> looser.

*****GK: I was under the impression that these were
Western Scandinavian peoples, and that this Roduulf
ruled somewhere in today's Norway. Has this been
firmly overturned in favour of an Eastern venue?******


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