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

[M. Carver]

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All participating members:
Please conduct further inquiries into this thread in appropriate lists, not Gothic-L, unless you wish to discuss something more closely related to Gothic. The thread has departed from its original, topical discussion. I do not consider general Scandinavian or Runic discussion topical, unless perhaps you are directly addressing the relationships of Goths and Turks through the context runic inscriptions.

golja thuk,

Matthaius

Sahin Ahmet wrote:

> 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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