[gothic-l] Re: Gothic and Gotlandic Sailing

[Tore Gannholm]

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>Tore,
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>It was for a long time common understanding that the Earth was the
>center of the universe. The problems with many old scholars is that
>their scientific methods were not as sound as modern methods and in
>addition they often wrote in a different political climate. Thus,
>they would generally be more open to engaging in speculation and
>accepting the speculative statements of one generation of scholars as
>unchangable facts into the next generation.
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>These 'Stammeskundler' quadrupled the knowledge about the Germanic
>tribes, but they also have ininvertedly done tremendous damage. See
>for example the article by J. Blischke 'Die Wielbark-Kulture und die
>Problematik der Gotenwanderung' in "Archaeologische Informationen,"
>19/1&2, 1996, pp. 117-123. Blischke shows in this article how the
>teachings of Kosinna, Nerman, Oxenstierna, Engel et alia, have
>stifled archaeological research on the Gothic migrations for almost a
>century. In short, to argue that the 'old scholars' were perhaps
>correct in this case, you would have to provide evidence to support
>this.
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>I really think that Andreas has provided the answer in his message
>above. It seems reasonable to assume that before 289AD the Heruli
>lived somewhere east of Holstein, perhaps the Mecklenburg coast,
>perhaps some Danish isles These areas are close together and
>difference cannot really be of any concern. This might enable the
>identification of the Heruls with the Hirri, who apparently lived at
>the Mecklenburg coast in the first century AD and who were mentioned
>by Pliny, but that is speculation as everything else beyond this
>point.
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>Dirk
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Dirk,
I think we agree on these things more than you think.

This was of course Denmark when some of these authors wrote their works.
We tend to forget that borders change.
Tore
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