"Victovaloke" (was: Re: Name of the Goths)

[Francisc Czobor]

Now I understand what that strange word "Victovaloke" actually means!
It is just the Hungarian genitive plural form of Victoval (another 
attested version of the tribe name Victoal-, Victobal-, Victofal- 
etc.), meaning "of the Victovals".
The whole phrase in "Erdély Története" (History of Transylvania) is:
"Dacia Porolissensis északnyugati határán a Szamos völgyében 168-ban 
jelenik meg az elsõ betelepülõ keleti germán törzs: a victovaloké." 
(Vol. 1, page 131)
The translation is approx. "At the northwestern border of Dacia 
Porolissensis in the valley of Szamos (Somes) river, appears in [the 
year] 168 the first immigrating Eastern-Germanic tribe: [that] of the 
Victovals."
In conclusion, all the reasonings about "Victo Valoke - The Romans 
vainquished the Wallachians" are just aberrations caused by reading a 
Hungarian text without knowing the language.

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "dciurchea" <dciurchea at ...> wrote:
> ...
> Moreover one may found unreliable assignments of gothic(germanic) 
> presence in Transylvania at the site of the famous "Erdely 
> Tortenete"(History of Transylvania) . A most famous and useful link:
> http://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02109/html/17.html
> There you may find that in 168 AD the east german tribe 
> of "Victovaloke" settled in the neigborhood of Vlaha(Wlacha)! (the 
> obvious reading Victo Valoke - The Romans vainquished the Wallachians
> (Walaks/Waloks) during the 168 riot of the free dacians was routed 
> towards a fantasy).
> 







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