[gothic-l] Crossing the Baltic Sea

[Bertil Haggman]

The argument that there were no sailing ships on the Baltic
Sea is one in a long line of arguments that Scandinavians
did not cross the Baltic Sea to migrate.

Wolfram wrote:

"Regardless of where and how peoples crossed from
Scandinavia to the mainland and vice versa, the Baltic
Sea was no obstacle. That certain cultural connections
and clues to migrations across the Baltic Sea are not
ethnically identifiable is a result of the methodology and the
material of archaeology. Achaeologists regard the Wiel-
bark culture as autochthonous."

It is however entirely possible that there was a Gutic
immigration. This would be reflected in the name Berig,
just as Ostrogotha is mentioned for the appearance of the
Amali in Ukraine.

It is also possible, according to Wolfram, that the Gutae of
Ptolemy might be predecessors of the Gauti who appear in
Procopius some for hundred years later. But it is a guess.

The attempt on the list to have only archaelogical material
to determine if there was an immigration from Scandinavia is not
substantiated by scholars. Instead it is argued that immigration
was possible.





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