[gothic-l] Goths, Eruls and Scandinavian Southeast Europe Contacts

[Bertil Haggman]

Dear Listmembers,

In a book published 1994 the authors (L.Rhodin-V. Lindblom
and K. Klang) brought up Scandinavian contacts with
southeastern Europe. The title of the book has been posted
by me in a short bibliography earlier. The Goths, so the authors, not unlikely
came from south Scandinavia. Certain parts of the Edda,
according to these researchers, had been directly translated
from Gothic to Icelandic.

They point to 17th century gothicism (which existed also in
Austra and Spain) was a reason for a more reduced research
on the Goths in Sweden. But the Scandinavian connection
cannot be easily explained away. The question is still unsolved
but how to explain linguistic similarities. In an interview in
on southwestern daily in 1991 Dr. Kerstin Schlyter explained
that in her view the Goths most likely migrated from southwestern
Sweden and that Gothic linguistically was close to Ancient
Swedish.

One of Swede's leading linguists, who has been quoted frequently
on this list, was one of the researchers who have supported a
link between the god Gaut, the Goths and the Gauts/Goetar. Like
Thorsten Anderson he thought there was a common root of the
two people names Goths and Goetar. Also Snorre Sturluson after
all pointed to Odin Gaut being the origin of the people name
Goetar.

The great number of Goet/Gaut names in Vaestergoetland no
doubt is connected to Goet/Gaut: Goetala, Goetlunda, Goetavi,
Goetaakra, Goetene, Goethem and others. The similarity
between these names and the Froe/Freja names are striking: Friel,
Foejel, Froelunda, Froeslunda, Froesve, Froevi, Froeaakra
and Fridene.

Gothically

Bertil


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