Kicking Roman Butt

[P. Lilius Frugius Simius]

As Jurate Rosales appears to have published only in Spanish (judging by a quick Google search), I find it hard to judge her arguments. The theory is interesting, but only if there are, indeed, undeniable Baltic elements in Gothic - they might just as well be completely absent, for all I know.

Agreed. As I am not an expret in neither baltic languages (just started slowly learning lithuanian) nor the gothic language presented in Ulfila's bible, I cannot provide. She does present some itneresting linguistic arguments that point in the baltic direction, but they may be accidental or even just linguistic loans or influx of words... however, I think it's a path to pursue, to see where it goes...

There is actually another interesting theory concerning the origin of the Goths that, while considering them a (mostly) "Germanic" people, feels that their actual ethnogenesis was a little more complicated than the old conventional view. One of the supporters of this theory is the Dutch historical linguist Frederik Kortlandt, who wrote an article "The Origin of the Goths", which can be read here:

http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art198e.pdf

I'll read it carefully, thanks a bunch.

OTOH, I have found places where connections with the Jatt, plus a PhD thesis that exposes that Jordanes's and Cassiodorus's accounts were mostly made up from greco-roman elements.

there are other results if you google for 'goths' and 'jatt' (or simply 'jat'), which apparently are/were of indo-iranian origins.

Here's the URI: http://p203.ezboard.com/fjattincboard30 ... D=77.topic

I'll keep searching, anyway...

best regards,