Boz = Bus < *Baus?

Wed Jul 19 09:22:44 UTC 2006

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Hi Tore!

Oh, you are so sure I have the Vasiliev's book! Of course not. The first preliminary version of the future book was published in the USSR with very limited circulation in a special purpose edition "Proceedings of the Academy of the material culture" in 1921 (Part I) and 1927 (Part II) years. That was all. I guess the full version appeared only in English and too far from Moscow. Your extracts give a good way to get acquaintance with the book, and I am very grateful to you.

Generally speaking, there is a great problem as there are two historical sciences, European (or Universal) and Russian (or Soviet), almost not intersecting. I hope such visits as your one to Vladimir and Suzdal would promote breaking the secular ice. (Unfortunately an analogous visit to Sweden and Gottland is beyond my possibilities.) By a coincidence, I also was in Vladimir and Suzdal a month before you. I am not a specialist in architecture, but as far as I remember, no old churches are preserved from the 12th century in their primeval form. Both towns had been founded just on the edge of 11th and 12th centuries and were reduced to ashes several times. Maybe a very good exception represents the Dmitrievsky Cathedral, more exactly the remainder of the original cathedral. Perhaps you have noted an unusual type of the cross over it. Instead of a conventional orthodox slanting bar there is something like a half-moon bearing a definite resemblance to the Moslem crescent. Old Kiev's Russia wavered in the 11th century between the Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Old northeastern Rostov's Russia wavered in the 12th century between the Orthodox Christianity and Islam, with both faiths having been rather united and mixed than opposed one to another.

Thank you for the references.

Vladimir

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From: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com [mailto:gothic-l at yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Tore Gannholm
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:48 AM
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
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Hi Vladimir,

You of course have Vasilievs book The Goths in the Crimea from 1936. 
I have some extracts on http://www.stavgard <http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/beowulf_/> .com/Gotland/beowulf_/ 
crimea/default.htm

in the foreword to the Guta lagh written down about 1220 it says. "So 
bygthus thair that firir. oc enn byggia oc enn hafa thair sumt af 
waru mali"

We have in Germanic-L extensively discussed the return of the Heruls 
to Sweden in the 6th century and there establishing the Vendel culture.

I have also published "The origin of Svear".

http://www.stavgard <http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/parla_/svear/default.htm> .com/Gotland/parla_/svear/default.htm

By the way middle of June I visited Vladimir and Suzdal in order to 
compare the 12th century churches with the Gotlandic churches of the 
same time.

Tore

On Jul 17, 2006, at 2:32 PM, ?????? ???????? wrote:

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> Hi, Tore!
>
> What sources do you mean? What are the particular evidences? It is 
> really very interesting.
>
> In connection with the 12th c., I can suggest the Russian princedom 
> Tmutarakan' (Greek Tamatarcha) on the eastern coast of Kerch strait 
> between the Black and Azov seas (Greek Bosporos Kymmericos). The 
> start date for that princedom is unknown. The commonly accepted 
> time point is 970 AD when the Russian prince (knyaz') Svyatoslav 
> (Sphendostlabos in Greek documents) totally destroyed the Khazar 
> kingdom (kaganate) and conquered almost all northern Caucasus. Last 
> notices about that princedom relate to the XIII c. In the middle 
> XII c., a very active and enterprising prince Oleg (with the 
> nickname Gorislavich) ruled in Tmutarakan'. With his residence in 
> Tmutarakan', he bereaved a half of Russian territory of Yaroslav 
> the Wise (the son and heir of Vladimir the Baptizer). Of course, 
> the official Russian history assumes all Russian rulers always 
> speaking Russian as a Slavic language, but the evidence of 
> Constantine VI (Porphyrogenete) allows us to assume them speaking 
> Germanic (see "De administratio imperio", chapter 9) though in the 
> middle X c., i.e. two centuries earlier.
>
> The question is very interesting for me. I developed recently a 
> hypothesis that (of course, in brief) Tamatarcha was occupied by 
> the Goths and Heruls in the early IV c. and became a "piratical 
> base" for their sensational raids against Pitius and then Greece 
> and Aegean islands. Later, having returned to southern Sweden, the 
> Black Sea (i.e. former Gothic) pirates provoked there the so-called 
> Vendel culture of the VI c. Fantastic? Maybe. But not quite 
> impossible.
>
> Vladimir
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Tore Gannholm
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> Hi,
> This is very interesting. We know from Gotlandic sorces that the
> Gotlanders in the 12th century met people at the Black Sea speaking
> their language. Is there anything more written about it?
>
> Tore
>
> On Jul 15, 2006, at 1:43 PM, ualarauans wrote:
>
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroup <mailto:gothic-l%40yahoogroups.com> 
> s.com, Tore Gannholm <tore at ...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > From which century is the source you refer to?
> > >
> > > Tore
> > >
> >
> > From the 11th, if I don't mistake
> >
> > Ualarauans
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