Tribes, peoples and their leaders

[Michael Erwin]

I'm not convinced by site-survey for even relative population  
estimates. So I'm not convinced that Baltic populations fell at the  
end of the 2nd/beginning of the 3rd century C.E.

I think we can agree that (1) there was very rapid migration at the  
end of the 2nd/beginning of the 3rd century C.E. [especially the 1st  
1/3 of the 3rd] (2) there was probably some Germanic migration before  
that, and substantial Gothic/Gothicized migration after that.

I think we still disagree over group sizes during the migration, and  
how far the Goths transplanted old political groupings from the  
Baltic, continued old political groupings from the Sarmatian/Alanic  
groups, and how much the created new ones, respectively.

Koine Greek and Gothic political institutions aren't the same, so  
their political vocabulary shouldn't line up. Wulfila faced several  
problems, including 1:1 translation. He could line up the Gothic  
words with the Greek originals according to scale, according to  
nature, or some combination. I doubt Wulfila would describe Jesus as  
a raider-king... which suggests nih thiudans nih frauja generally  
mean war-leaders.


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