[gothic-l] Re: ZDF Program on the Goths

[Tore Gannholm]

>
>  >
>>  Professor Birger Nerman who during the wars was professor in
>>  archaeology in Estonia (later in charge of the Historical museum in
>>  Stockholm) and supervised  many excavations there writes in
>>  Fornvännen 1954 that from younger Bronze age he has found plenty of
>>  Gotlandic artefacts and graves in Kurland, now part of Lituania,
>>  which he takes as Gotlandic trading posts.
>>
>>  Tore
>>
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>
>Tore,
>
>It is absolutely clear from the literature that the Wielbark culture
>and its preceeding Oksywie culture are authochonous. They do not
>originate in Scandinavia; they were not formed through the merger of
>different cultures from Scandinavia or elswhere; they are not related
>to Scandinavian culture, in fact they are very distinct in every
>respect from Scandinavian cultures. This does not exclude the arrival
>of small groups or even individuals at the end of the 1st century, as
>explained by the archaeologists.
>
>I am not a professional historian or archaeologist, but Andreas has
>made this point repeatedly and explicitly. Well, he is a leading
>expert on the Goths, why don't you just believe him?
>
>Dirk
>

Dirk,
If I understand you right , you say that the Swedish Professors don't 
know what they are talking about when they deal with the late Bronze 
age early Iron age relations in the Southern Baltic and analyze 
archaeological finds!!

Tore
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