From: "mrsingerejohansson" Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars Date: 04 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <01be7e91$5ce016a0$8729f482@default> References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <78pl3c$84o@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b0dc2f.3434839@news.yale.edu> <78v30o$vl6@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b34d7c.60430113@news.yale.edu> <794e84$4iq@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <3744d12a.1873763068@news.wxs.nl> <796m95$eq2@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <375c0ea6.1954957123@news.wxs.nl> <79fo99$qkl@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36effb24.440413110@news.yale.edu> <7cp58m$2de@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36fac983.6248364@news.yale.edu> <3701ad7a.22810790@news.yale.edu> <7e7eq4$ieo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk> X-Sender: s-413158@dialup41-3-7.swipnet.se X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 923226504 130.244.41.135 (Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:48:24 MET DST) Organization: A Customer of Tele2 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:48:24 MET DST Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang Pamela Maddison skrev i inlägg <7e7eq4$ieo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>... > Looking a bit further back in history: has anybody any opinions on why there > are Turkic/Finno-Ugrian elements in 3rd century Gothic? ("Atta" - "father"; > "jah" - "and"). These are far too ordinary to have come in via the usual > loan-word route. > Please try to get hold of Ammanianus Marcellinus Res Gesta as well as Orosius Seven Books against Pagans, than you will find your answer. The Goths who,(see Tacitus and Plinus) during the first Century AD had moved to the opening of the rivers Oder and Wisla, had during the second century established Merchandary areas and moved on Eastward as well as Southeast in Europe - In 263 AD they met with ancestors of todays Hungarians the Finns the Goth had contact with long before 475 BC(read Herodotus about the peoples beyond the Skytians and try to get hold of some of Alexander the Greats material as well). The Finns was in older ages living southeast of Moskow and there the Goths from Gotland(and from other places in Gothaland, Sweden) met with them during older ages - for the referencis of the Archaeological material please try to get hold of books of Montelius(Swede) as well as Tallgren Aarne Michael, Die Kupfer- und Bronzezeit Nord- und Ost Russland, Helsingfors 1911 and Labuda Gerard,Zródla, sagi i legendy do najdawniej szych dziejów polski, Warsaw 1960. BTW don't forget to read Zosimus New History to when you are at it. Have a nice time reading and Happy Eastern. Inger E Johansson BA History