[gothic-l] archaeology and the gothic question

[george knysh]

--- Fernando Jimenez <jimenezf01 at mail.montclair.edu>
Off the
> cuff, they appear to be "Alanic", (a group against
> whom the Visigoths
> waged war).

******GK: True for some periods. Keep in mind however
that the historical post-376 "Visigoths" included
ethnic elements from further east (Greuthungian and
Alanic-- those who fled from the Huns with Alatheus
and Saphrax for instance). It is now established as
solidly as these things can be that (unlike the Slavs)
most of the Alans and Late Scythians who symbiotized
with the Goths prior to the Hunnic onslaught migrated
westward. The appearance of their graves among Gothic
groups throughout Western Europe should therefore
cause no particular surprise.********


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