07-07-2005, 08:38 PM
avete!
Interesting hypothesis... For example, we know that the Galinda and Lubava were Baltic populi bordering the Northeastern side of the Vistula, in old Prussia. They shared the river with the Veneti, Aestii, Gotones (Goths?) and probably with the Silingae and Vandals. Galas means 'boundary' in lithuanian, thus they were the "frontier guys". If (big "if") the Gotones are really the Goths, we can hypothesize that a) there must have been tradde, military and other kind of contact between them, b) maybe they all shared similarities, or even the same culture, either by fusion, or through cultural/military conquest. We know that the Galinda survived until, at least, 1200CE, and they were basically Prussian (Baltic) by then (Prussia was Baltic until well into the XVIII Century). The Goths, obviusly, moved, but were they really *that* different (Ulfila's text aside)? Interesting question... Sometimes I wish Science was passionless, but it's just out of frustration, I wouldn't stand a passionless Science (but I wouldn't mind a less political one, though)
Regarding the English, I dunno, because, nowadays, English is really spreaded out, and mixed. The language is even fragmentating (and joining again, with fractures, thanks to global communications)... pidgin? spanglish? british and american? (what about the aussies? :-) ) I see German or Dutch and English and Latin, and I (out of ignorance) could get to draw a mix-in between them... scary, indeed...
thank you very much for your insights!
Quote:Of the top of my head, another possibility is that the Goths were analogous to the English: a group of Germanic people with a assimilated Baltic ruling class, or vice versa. Actually, Anglo-Saxon continued in some "official" uses for quite a while. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle ends around 1154, at the end of Stephen's reign.
Interesting hypothesis... For example, we know that the Galinda and Lubava were Baltic populi bordering the Northeastern side of the Vistula, in old Prussia. They shared the river with the Veneti, Aestii, Gotones (Goths?) and probably with the Silingae and Vandals. Galas means 'boundary' in lithuanian, thus they were the "frontier guys". If (big "if") the Gotones are really the Goths, we can hypothesize that a) there must have been tradde, military and other kind of contact between them, b) maybe they all shared similarities, or even the same culture, either by fusion, or through cultural/military conquest. We know that the Galinda survived until, at least, 1200CE, and they were basically Prussian (Baltic) by then (Prussia was Baltic until well into the XVIII Century). The Goths, obviusly, moved, but were they really *that* different (Ulfila's text aside)? Interesting question... Sometimes I wish Science was passionless, but it's just out of frustration, I wouldn't stand a passionless Science (but I wouldn't mind a less political one, though)
Regarding the English, I dunno, because, nowadays, English is really spreaded out, and mixed. The language is even fragmentating (and joining again, with fractures, thanks to global communications)... pidgin? spanglish? british and american? (what about the aussies? :-) ) I see German or Dutch and English and Latin, and I (out of ignorance) could get to draw a mix-in between them... scary, indeed...
thank you very much for your insights!
Episkopos P. Lilius Frugius Simius Excalibor, :. V. S. C., Pontifex Maximus, Max Disc Eccl
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