[gothic-l] Re: Ostrogothic Dress

[Tore Gannholm]

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>
>Tore,
>
>I have no problem with that, but I only wanted to point out that the
>depiction of such a sailing boat on this particular rune stone does
>support the dating to the 9th century rather than creating an
>oherwise unheard of precedence for a depiction of such a ship 200
>years earlier. This should be reasonable, especially if the grounds
>on which to re-date the stone to the early 6th century is based on a
>supposedly Phrygian cap of the horseman on the stone.
>
>Dirk
>


Dirk,

I have no opinion about the dating of the Sparlösa runestone.
Remenber this is a runstone.

What I am talking about are the Gotlandics picturestones that go back 
to the 2nd century.
I just spoke to professor Erik Nylén who is the author to the book 
"Gotlandic picture stones" where we have the oldest pictures of 
sailing ships in the Baltic.
He says that the oldest dating of a picture stone with sails in 
Gotland is about 600 or somewhat earlier.
That shows that the Gutnish people used sails at least in the 6th century.

As we have no earlier pictures of sailing ships in the Baltic does 
not mean that they did not use sails earlier. What is so particular 
about sails?
It has been used in the Mediterranean much earlier.

The Gotlandic people were the dominating people in the Baltic until 
the 6th century when suddenly there appeared a powerful force in the 
Lake Mälar area. We can testify from archaeological finds that  there 
were wars between those two.
You can read about them in Beowulf. A large part deals with those wars.
Your can read about it in the Guta sagah (the Gotlandic history 
written down about 1220)

Tore
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