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To: LostTribe
The Goths
5 posted on 09/27/2002 8:09:04 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
>According to their own traditions, the Goths originated in a land called 'Gothiscandza', identified as southern Scandinavia.

Sounds like Denmark or lower Sweden.

>It was population pressure which, according to their legends, caused them to move en masse to ... Poland.

Must have been really crowded there.  Sure, you betcha.

>Unfortunately, there is no archaeological evidence to support the legend.

Oh, well. They always were great story tellers.

>What does seem to have happened is that there was a slow, steady drift from the Oder-Vistula region into the Ukraine, or Scythia as it was known to the ancients.

Probably went back there to visit their old Uncle BjÖrn. {ggg}. But it is interesting, most everywhere they go they run into other tribes of Celts. Was there any one else there in any numbers besides Celts?

8 posted on 09/27/2002 9:12:48 PM PDT by LostTribe
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