[gothic-l] Re: Two Peoples

[L. A. Gothro]

An interjection from myself:

I am not a scholar, but I am interested in my family's geneaology.  So I
just wanted to let you know that, even though this is a matter of course to
the rest of you (if I'm not being too presumptuous), I appreciate all this
info!

Sincerely,

L. A. Gothro
(from "Gotrot, or Gauthreaux, or Gotreau!)


>From: "faltin2001" <dirk at smra.co.uk>
>Reply-To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
>To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [gothic-l] Re: Two Peoples
>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:13:41 -0000
>
> > Also the linguistic similarity between the people names Goths,
>Gutar,
> > Goetar/Gauti will always be hard to explain away.
>
>
>These linguistic similarities do not need to be explained away.
>Whatever the original name meant, it can have had significance for a
>number of people in different areas without any migration or
>connection. Note that the name Veneti is applied to a range of people
>from the Baltic sea cost in central/eastern Europe, Northern Italy
>and Western Gaul. Also, Saami live in northern Scandinavia, while a
>Prussian tribe was also called Sami. In neither case was a migration
>the cause for the occurance of these names in different places.
>
>Even if the name of the Goths, Gauts and Goetar derived from the same
>ethnic group it remains entirely open which group adopted the name
>first and how it was transfered to another group. Especially with
>archaeology arguing against a transmission by migration we would have
>to look for other explanations.
>
>Dirk
>




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