With best wishes of a Prosperous 2002 I am providing a few glimpses of the beginning of the momentous final deathstruggle of the West Roman empire at the hands...
... expect ... the ... coins ... rare ... well ... quarter- ... coin ... flowing ... expected ... Hi Troels, there are only about 3 to 4 coins in existence...
... Dirk, The solidis found in Hungary where the Heruls stayed and were kicked out by the Langobards are they also minted in Constantinopel? Tore --...
... eastern ... Anders ... History, ... world ... research ... and ... import in ... more ... with ... the ... between ... H. ... much more ... east ... ...
... as a ... who ... majority ... in ... Odoaker. ... were ... in ... and ... received ... (Constantinopel) ... kicked ... Tore, I have an article summarising...
... Hi Dirk, I found the following comment on the web. In Patrick Amory's People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554. Cambridge 1997, I read a very...
... Volker ... 554. ... Hi Tore, the criticism against Bierbrauer is not against his findings and his arguments as such, but against his assertation that some ...
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andreas.schwarcz@...
Jan 2, 2002 1:37 pm
Dear Bertil, your account is not quite correct. Stilicho was killed on August 22, A.D.408, not 407. Athaulf never was magister militum. He was for a short time...
... that the ... Theoderic's ... Hi Oskar, I have the same question as yourself. I would also like to know which source states that the Visigoths of 405AD were...
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andreas.schwarcz@...
Jan 2, 2002 2:53 pm
Dear Dirk, there is no source stating that Radagaisus was joined by Vandals and Burgundinans. Zosimus, Historia nea 5, 26, who gave the number of 400.000, only...
... 5, ... Dear Andreas, thanks a lot for this most welcome clarification. I think that there is a more fundamental problem in the presentation of these...
Hi, See inside notes too, but my MAIN question is whether we actually are able to identify Visigoths/Ostrogoths prior to Alaric's conquest of Rome 410 and...
... Dirk, You are quite right. I contacted Anders Kaliff and he apologized for the mistake. It had come into the manuscript by mistake. This paragraph should...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 2, 2002 9:30 pm
Andreas, Thank you for informing the list about the day of death of Stilicho. On the question of Athawulf I still believe he reached the position of magister...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 2, 2002 9:38 pm
Oskar, The first Visigothic king was Athanarich, who ruled probably from 366 AD to January 25, 381 AD. There seems to be a question wether Fridigern the ruled ...
Hi, Fritigern and Alavivus became the leaders of a large group of Tervingi Goths after they had abandoned the rule of Athanaric. They arrived at the Danube...
... Hi Troels, ... were ... in ... and ... received ... (Constantinopel) ... The Herulian mercenaries of Odoacer got land as wages - or the income hereof. How...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:40 am
Oskar, What is the proof that the there was not a Visigothic king (Athanarich) around 366 AD. I think you have to go back to the early history of the Visigoths...
... Oskar, We have a problem with old authors that are still read, lika Olaus Magni and followers like Birger Nerman. They established that there were...
... Bertil, When was the word Visigoth invented? I think it is very late. After various groups crossed Danube and formed on Roman soil. Tore --...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 3, 2002 8:00 am
Dear Listmembers, It is of course not possible with any exactness to decide what brought the Goths south from Scandinavia. For decades it looked as if they ...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 3, 2002 8:10 am
Tore, Wishing you a pleasant 2002. I am basing my observations on Jordanes. A section of _Getica_ is headlined "The Divided Goths: Visigoths". Jordanes used...
Bertil, I also wish you a prosperous 2002. OK I understand. Jordanes wrote in the mid 6th century. The people he writes about are at that time called...
... of ... are ... The ... in ... income ... Since they were in Italy they will have received primarily coins of the Italian mints. In fact, Grierson and...
... Well I think all modern scholars would agree that the Gothic tribe formed in the first century BC in what is now northern Poland. For decades it looked as...
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Bertil Haggman
mvk575b@...
Jan 3, 2002 10:07 am
And where is the evidence of that ethnogenesis? Bertil Haggman...
... The evidence is set out - among others - in the contributions on the Goths by Walter Pohl, Volker Bierbrauer and others in the Reallexikon der Germanischen...
... -- Dirk, It would be very interesting to know how you can be so emphatic on this matter. It is not clearly stated in Procopius. I have read various ...
... western ... in ... coins ... West. ... Rome. ... this matter. ... Tore, I am not sure what you mean. I only suggested that the Danubian Heruls were allied...
The link below takes you to the synopsis of a recent article on the Goths in the Journal of European Archaeology. http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html? ...
