[gothic-l] Tracing the Heruli

[Tore Gannholm]

>
>Let's not forget that the first connection between
>Scandinavia (the Baltic sea) and territories adjacent
>to the Black sea was established not later than in
>the 2nd century by the Goths. The path along Vistula
>and Dniester + South Bug is accepted by most of
>contemporaneous archaeologist. This does not contradict
>to Jordanes. Some connections should have been
>maintained within the Hermanaticus' power
>(remember, Hermanaricus conquered both the Heruls and
>Aesti). But I meant something another, an opposite
>"river path" from the Black (or Azov) sea to the Baltic
>sea, a path, which was passed first by St. Andrew
>according to old Russian chronicles. This circum-European
>path started in the Black sea, passed some rivers on
>the Russian plain, Baltic sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean,
>and finished then in Rome. Besides St. Andrew, the Herul
>pirates, apprentices of the Bosporan seamen and "rivermen",
>were able to pass that path. In particular, I suspect them
>as having provoked later the Viking age in Scandinavia.
>
>Vladimir
>

Vladimir,
In the Gotlandic chronicle they talk about the river dyna (Düna) for 
their travel to Greece.

If you could read Swedish there is a good study of the Gotlandic 
together with Svear push into the Russian river 7th and 8th century.

http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/picturestones_/sterled/default.htm

Tore

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