Brit-Am Research Sources (9 July, 2013, Av 2, 5773)
Contents:
1. Lowlands Scottish English Dialect Dictionary online: Hebrew Parallels
2. Vangione Possible Ancestors of Some of the Jews in Germany. Graetz on the Khazars and the Ten Tribes
3. Tervingi Black Sea Goths to Saxony
4. The Nordic razor and the Mycenaean lifestyle
5. The Current State of the Cimmerian Problem by Askold Ivantchik
6. Were the Cimbri of Denmark Celtic or Germanic?
7. On the Early Frisian Settlements in Scotland by W.F. Skene
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1. Lowlands Scottish English Dialect Dictionary online: Hebrew Parallels
http://archive.org/stream/etymologicaldict01jamiuoft#page/n23/mode/2up
aback cf. Hebrew "ha"
abad
abas abash cf. Hebrew "ha-baish"
abarrand departing from cf. Hebrew "aber"
abee let alone cf. Hebrew "bi"
aboil cf. Hebrew "havhil"
( river ir and river air ) cf. Hebrew "yaor"
baby bairn cf. Hebrew "bar"
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2. Vangione Possible Ancestors of Some of the Jews in Germany
Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891), the first Jewish community in Germany derived from descendants of Vangione mercenaries in the Roman army and captured Jewish maidens.
p.14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangiones
The Vangiones appear first in history as an ancient Germanic tribe of unknown provenience. They threw in their lot with Ariovistus in his bid of 58 BC to invade Gaul through the Doubs river valley and lost to Julius Caesar in a battle probably near Belfort. After some Celts evacuated the region in fear of the Suebi the Vangiones, who had made a Roman peace, were allowed to settle among the Mediomatrici in northern Alsace. (Metz however is now in Lorraine). They gradually assumed control of the Celtic city of Burbetomagus, later Worms.
Graetz on the Khazars and the Ten Tribes
On page 141 in his "History of the Jews" Professor H. Graetz states:
"The Chazars professed a coarse religion, which was combined with sensuality and lewdness...After Obadia came a long series of Jewish Chagans (kings), for ACCORDING TO A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE STATE ONLY JEWISH RULERS WERE PERMITTED TO ASCEND THE THRONE...For some time THE JEWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONVERSION OF THIS POWERFUL KINGDOM TO JUDAISM, and when at last a vague rumor to this effect reached them, THEY WERE OF THE OPINION THAT CHAZARIA WAS PEOPLED BY THE REMNANT OF THE FORMER TEN TRIBES."
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3. Tervingi Black Sea Goths to Saxony
Heike Grahn-Hoek's theory that parts of the Tervingi took a northern route when fleeing from the Huns, and either ended up or passed through what is now Saxony and Thuringia in middle Germany. More than 30 years ago archaeologist Berthold Schmidt had reported about the graves in Saxony and Thuringia with skeletons with 3-winged (Hunnic) arrow-heads imbedded in them, which he interpreted as signs of Hunnic raids or defensive struggles against Hunnic invastions, by people fleeing from the Huns. These fibulae would match this very nicely.
Cheers
Dirk
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4. The Nordic razor and the Mycenaean lifestyle
Flemming Kaul
*Danish Prehistory, The National Museum of Denmark, Frederiksholms Kanal 12, Copenhagen DK 1220, Denmark (Email: flemming.kaul@natmus.dk)
The bronze razor with the horse-head handle appeared in Scandinavia in the fifteenth century BC. Where did it come from and what did it mean? The author shows that the razor had some antecedents in the Aegean, although none of these objects were imported to the north. He argues that the Scandinavian warrior class consciously adopted elements of the Mycenaean warrior package, including a clean-shaven face. This vividly exposes new aspects of the busy and subtle nature of international communication in the Bronze Age.
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5. The Current State of the Cimmerian Problem by Askold Ivantchik
Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 7, 2001, 307-340
http://www.academia.edu/1084093/The_Current_State_of_the_Cimmerian_Problem_Ancient_Civilizations_from_Scythia_to_Siberia_7_2001_307-340
Extracts and Notes:
In the time of Esarhaddon two groups of Cimmerians existed a western one in Asia Minor and an eastern one in Mannaea and the Media region p.314
I.M. Diakonoff held that in the reign of Esarhaddon the Cimmerians were exclusively to the west of Assyria in Asia Minor, while the Scythians were in the East, in Manna and Media: The texts mentioning the Cimmerians in the east were referring to the Scythians. (p.318)
Central Asian Sakas referred to as Cimmerians at a later date in Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods (p.319).
first mention 714 BCE
second mention 679 BCE (p.331)
679 Ubru-Harran head of a Cimmerian unit in Assyrian army.
Iskuzai mentioned quite frequently but in regions to the east of Assyria (p.339)
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6. Were the Cimbri of Denmark Celtic or Germanic?
From: gotenfreund
Subject: [Germanic-L] Re: Cimbri and names
And re: the language of the Kimbri:
Language
A major problem in determining whether the Cimbri were speaking a Celtic or a Germanic language is that at this time the Greeks and Romans tended to refer to all groups to the north of their sphere of influence as Gauls, Celts, or Germani rather indiscriminately. Caesar seems to be one of the first authors to distinguish the two groups, and he has a political motive for doing so (it is an argument in favour of the Rhine border).[19] Yet, one cannot always trust Caesar and Tacitus when they ascribe individuals and tribes to one or the other category, although Caesar made clear distinctions between the two cultures. Most ancient sources categorize the Cimbri as a Germanic tribe,[20] but some ancient authors include the Cimbri among the Celts.[21]
There are few direct testimonies to the language of the Cimbri: Referring to the Northern Ocean (the Baltic or the North Sea), Pliny the Elder states:[22] "Philemon says that it is called Morimarusa, i.e. the Dead Sea, by the Cimbri, until the promontory of Rubea, and after that Cronium." The contemporary Gaulish terms for "sea" and "dead" appear to have been mori and *maruo-; compare their well-attested modern Insular Celtic cognates muir and marbh (Irish), m�r and marw (Welsh), and mor and marv (Breton).[23] The same word for "sea" is also known from Germanic, but with an a (*mari-), whereas a cognate of marbh is unknown in all dialects of Germanic.[24] Yet, given that Pliny had not heard the word directly from a Cimbric informant, it cannot be ruled out that the word is in fact Gaulish instead.[25]
The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix (which may mean "King of the Boii" or, more literally, "King of Strikers"), Gaesorix (which means "Spear King"), and Lugius (which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic (compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix).[26] Also, although the kings of the Cimbri and Teutones carry what look like Celtic names, the origin of a name need not say anything about the ethnicity or language of the individual carrying the name. Other evidence to the language of the Cimbri is circumstantial: thus, we are told that the Romans enlisted Gaulish Celts to act as spies in the Cimbri camp prior to the final showdown with the Roman army in 101 BC. Some take this as evidence in support of "the Celtic rather than the German theory".[27]
Jean Markale[28] wrote that the Cimbri were associated with the Helvetii, and more especially with the indisputably Celtic Tigurini. These associations may link to a common ancestry, recalled from two hundred years previous, though they may not. Henri Hubert[29] states "All these names are Celtic, and they cannot be anything else". Some authors take a different perspective.[30]
Countering the argument of a Celtic origin is the literary evidence that the Cimbri originally came from northern Jutland,[30] an area with no Celtic placenames, instead only Germanic ones.[31][32] This does not rule out Cimbric Gallicization during the period when they lived in Gaul[30] . Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J. B. Rives points out in his introduction to Tacitus's Germania (book) and moreover that the name Boiorix can work in Proto-Germanic as well as Celtic.[26]
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7. On the Early Frisian Settlements in Scotland by W.F. Skene
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_004/4_169_181.pdf
Selected Notes;
Skene places the Anglo-Saxon invasions a little earlier than conventional dates.
Equates the Saxons who invaded England with Frisians.
Angles in Northumberland.
Guidi was another name for Frisians.
Pheris - Frissian
Fomorians of Ireland were Frissians
Often associated with Cruithen and Picts.