[gothic-l] Re: Old Turkish Runic Alphabet - what are your thoughts?

[Sahin Ahmet]

Dear George,
I shall read the germanic list archieves as you suggest.
Giving extreme examples like mars and polinezya does not quite explain why such a mobile people like huns can never be in scandinavia even for a temporary period. The fact that science so far did not show so, does not necessarily implicate non presence. Scandinavia is not so far from the hungarian plains as hungarian plains from the altai mountains. As fast moving people huns may not have left too much evidence for their presence and as nomads they did not have architectural skills to leave behind.But surely they had a script of their own.
george knysh wrote:
--- Sahin Ahmet <ahmetsahinn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am not a member of germanic list and I do not want
> to be,

*****GK: It doesn't cost anything, and reading what
intelligent people have to say about issues of
interest (if only peripheral) to you will surely do
you no harm. After consulting the archives you may
freely leave*****

> I dont understand why you rule out turkish presence
> in scandinavia which may be very temporary.

*****GK: Basically for the same reason any even
moderately scientifically inclined individual of any
ethnicity would rule out the presence of Berbers or
Polynesian seafarers, or aliens from Mars or Planet X
for that matter: namely, there is not a shred of
evidence of any kind to back up this idea, neither
archaeological, nor historical, nor linguistic, nor
folkloric, nor you name it. The first evidence (though
not all accept this) known to me of contact between
Turks and Scandinavians is that adduced by Pritsak
with respect to the development of the younger futhark
(I omit the contact between Goths and Huns since only
a very few of the former might be considered even
"ex-Scandinavians" let alone the real thing,
individuals excepted.)******



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