[gothic-l] Recommendation

[Oskar Andersson]

Hi,

without wanting to start a frutiless debate over which 
authors to prefer over the other, I just wanted to say 
that the book from Hermodsson has been mentioned 
and rejected previously on this list because of its not-
updated presentation of the history of Goths. Personally 
I have not read the book - but I trust Tore's review of it 
and I was "upset" by the erroneous views presented here 
on the list from it.

I am not too familiar with all the books below, but Ingemar's 
is interesting and Tacitus is a must - as is Jordanes' Getica.

Most scholars on this list would agree on Heather's and Wolfram's 
authority on the subject and I trust you'd learn a lot from reading 
them too. They are the most comprehensive!

Just as Bertil has said there are many other authors with 
interesting opinions to take into consideration (like Wessén, Svennung, 
Wenskus, et cetera) but there's no need to deny the authority that 
both above mentioned possess on the subject and reject their 
authorities just because they don't comply with the idea of a 
Scandinavian origin!
Ingemar's book deals with some connections of the Goths with 
Scandinavia and it is definitely worth studying.


Best,
Oskar

PS: Did this guy ever ask for a book recommendation anyway? :)


> Le,
> 
> Wolfram and Heather should be read with care
> and it should be kept in mind that there is
> a collection of modern writing that do not
> agree with the conclusions of the above.
> 
> Bell-Fialkoff, A., _The Role of Migration in the History of
> the Eurasian Steppe_, London: Macmillan, 2000.
> 
> Findeisen, Joerg-Peter, _Schweden - Von den Anfaengen bis zur
> Gegenwart_, Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 1998.
> 
> Hermodsson, Lars, _Goterna - ett krigafolk och dess bibel_ , 
> Stockholm, Atlantis, 1993.
> 
> Nordgren, I., Goterkaellan - om goterna i Norden och paa
> kontinenten_, Skara: Vaestergoetlands museums skriftserie nr
> 30, 2000.
> 
> Rodin, L. - Lindblom, V. - Klang, K., _Gudatraed och vaestgoetska
> skottkungar - Sveriges bysantiska arv_, Goeteborg: Tre boecker,
> 1994.
> 
> _Schaetze der Ostgoten_, Stuttgart: Theiss, 1995.
> 
> _Studia Gotica - Die eisenzeitlichen Verbindungen zwischen Schweden
> und Suedosteuropa - Vortraege beim Gotensymposion im Statens
> Historiska Museum_, Stockholm 1970.
> 
> Tacitus, _Germania_, (with introduction and commentary by J.B. Rives),
> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
> 
> Gothically
> 
> Bertil
> 
> 
> 
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