[gothic-l] Eruli in the West

[Bertil Haggman]

Not very new stuff. A century old you say. Well,
there is nothing new in the Eruli being in Italy.
This is just rehashing. There is no unity of
opinion as you are trying to indicate. There are the
two letters of Theoderich of which one is for a
western Erulic king. The request for support
of the peace efforts of Theoderic (directed at the
king of the Varni and the king of the Thuringians)
among the Franks and the Visigoths is also
of interest. As usual there are many different
views by many different researchers. There is
no reason to believe that Central European
claims come nearer a truth than other writings
on the subject.

On the Eruli origins there is no doubt that the
Scandinavian origin is a current thesis in
lingustics and history in Sweden. Except for
Ellegaard  (1987) there has been no challenge
to this view.

Concerning Denmark the picture is similar. (see
_Danmarks Historie_ and Christiansen's history).
Most writers agree that the Eruli were driven out
by the Danes around 250 AD for the area north
of the Black Sea.

Thank you for a contribution full of views. It is always
interesting to learn abou views coming from Vienna.

Erulically

Bertil Haggman



...a century since Mommsen,...
strengthened by Ludwig Schmidt.

The Eruli vanquished by Maximian in
2867287 were settled near the lower Rhine and they still were there
in the fifth century, when Sidonius Apollinaris note an Erulian
embassy at the court of the Visigothic king Euric. Those incursions
mentioned by Hydatius probably originated with them.




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