Talk:Goths/Quotes
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I have created this workpage for collection of quotations used in the Goths article, related articles, talk-page discussions and the many different places drafts have been made. At least for now, the intention is to focus only upon the question of pre-3rd century Gothic origins. This is because...
- (a) the same quotes keep getting repeated, and often in ways which clog the talk page and
- (b) as discussed many times, there are concerns about sources being misinterpreted, making improvement of the Goths article, and related ones, extremely difficult, especially for editors called in to look at RFCs.
At the time of creating this workpage the main recent discussion requiring consideration of sources has been concerning the question of what can be said about Goths before the 3rd century, when Roman sources describe them as living near the Danube and Black Sea for the first time.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 10:24, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
Note, this page should not be used for lower quality sources (twitter accounts, blogs, primary DNA research, short dictionary articles, asides by academics writing outside of their recognized speciality etc). We are LUCKY that at least there are ENOUGH good sources for this topic.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 10:52, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
No academic consensus about pre-3rd century Goths
[edit]Especially Michael Kulikowski is identified with criticism of all speculations about this, but many agree with him partly or completely, and his expertise is respected.
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The 3rd century was at least a cultural reboot: a new version of the Goths
[edit]According to the widely accepted position of Wenskus, Wolfram, etc, the Black Sea Goths were in effect a newly founded people in most senses of the word, despite their name having an older tradition. "Biologically" distinct peoples can share one tradition.
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Jordanes is the main source for all ideas about pre 3rd-century Goths, but can not be trusted
[edit]Heather represents the most "pro Jordanes" position among modern experts, but he also agrees that Jordanes can not be trusted.
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Evidence which does not come from Jordanes
[edit]Note that Kulikowski, for example, argues that there is none.
Language
[edit]Widely accepted as important, but not decisive, even for Heather.
- Halsall 2007, p. 133. "The Goths clearly spoke an east Germanic language [...] This probably implies some migration into the region (although there were people regarded as 'Germanic' in the region before), probably during the third century, when imperial sources first attest the Goths north of the Danube. Where these newcomers came from cannot now be ascertained but the territory of the Wielbark culture is probable, though not on the basis of the archaeological evidence."
- Heather 2010, pp. 114–115: there is no doubt that the new Gothic masters of the landscape were Germanic-speakers. The Gothic Bible translation was produced for some of them by Ulfila, the descendant of Roman prisoners captured by the Goths from Asia Minor, and its Germanic credentials are irrefutable. [...] This, of course, was not the first time the Germanic-speakers had provided the dominant population stratum in the region. The Bastarnae, subdued by the Sarmatians around the beginning of the first millenium, had also been Germanic. So in theory it might be possible to explain the rise of Gothic domination north of the Black Sea in the third century as the re-emergence of those Germanic groups who had been subordinated here in the first.
The similar name of the Gutones
[edit]Philologists think the name is related, and also the names of the Gauts and Geats. But this on its own is not decisive evidence of real migration even for Heather. (A moving name only implies a prestige attached to that name.) However, he argues that at least for the move from Baltic to Black Sea, there are other similarly moving tribal names, increasing the chances that a reasonable number of people actually moved.
- Heather 2010, p. 115: "In the period of Dacian and Sarmatian dominance, groups known as Goths – or perhaps 'Gothones' or 'Guthones' – inhabited lands far to the north-west, beside the Baltic. Tacitus placed them there at the end of the first century AD, and Ptolemy did likewise in the middle of the second, the latter explicitly among a number of groups said to inhabit the mouth of the Vistula. Philologists have no doubt, despite the varying transliterations into Greek and Latin, that it is the same group name that suddenly shifted its epicentre from northern Poland to the Black Sea in the third century."
- Heather 2010, pp. 115–116. "The Rugi, like the Goths, had occupied part of the Baltic littoral in the time of Tacitus, and the likliest location for Vandals in the same period is north-central Poland, to the south of the Goths and Rugi." [...] "If 'Goth' was the only Germanic group name from north-central Europe to shift its location in these years you might get away with the argument that it's a case of accidental resemblance [...] but it isn't only Goth."
Archaeology
[edit]There IS consensus about the POST 3rd century Goths being part of the Cheryakhov culture
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The culture compared to the earlier Gutones, and the Vistula story in Jordanes, is the Wielback culture
[edit]Examples showing recognition that this position is common, but also criticized
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CONTRAST TO WOLFRAM:
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Archaeological evidence is not decisive for pre-3rd century Goths
[edit]Heather argues that the archaeological evidence is not useless for this question. Not everyone agrees with that, and Heather does not dispute that it is problematic and needing to be treated with caution.
- Heather 2010, p. 165. "Given that identity is fundamentally subjective, located internally in the self-consciousness of individuals and their relationships with one another, then material culture similarities are neither here nor there."
- Heather 2010, pp. 110–111. "In my view, however ... the archaeological evidence is more compelling than the anti-migrationist reading suggests. ... In short, you're never likely to get more than an ambiguous reflection of migration from archaeological evidence, so that archaeological ambiguity can itself never disprove the possibility of a migration having occurred."
- Halsall 2007, p. 133. "The Goths clearly spoke an east Germanic language [...] This probably implies some migration into the region (although there were people regarded as 'Germanic' in the region before), probably during the third century, when imperial sources first attest the Goths north of the Danube. Where these newcomers came from cannot now be ascertained but the territory of the Wielbark culture is probable, though not on the basis of the archaeological evidence."
- Halsall 2007, p. 133. "This [archaeological] evidence will not support the idea of a substantial migration."
- Steinacher 2018, p. 414 . "Der archäologische Befund weist insgesamt nicht auf große, geschlossene Wanderungen, sondern auf längerfristige Migrationsbewegungen kleiner, mobiler Gruppen."
- Andrew Poulter, 2007. "Invisible Goths within and beyond the Roman Empire" in: Drinkwater, J. and Salway, B., eds., Wolf Liebeschuetz reflected, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02387.x 169-182: "Although there is no consensus, most would not go so far as to argue that a ‘Gothic identity’ did not exist in the fourth century: that ‘the Goths’ were an association of various ethnic groups based upon mutual interest and that the tradition of a Germanic origin was invented by Jordanes in the sixth century.” But, given that the ancient sources still allow for such widely differing interpretations, it is no surprise that historians seeking unambiguous and explicit evidence for the arrival of the Goths within the Roman Empire should turn to archaeology. Archaeology, when required to answer an historical problem, is all too able to provide answers. Unfortunately, however, it can provide plausible corroboration for whatever view a particular historian already believes. But the truth is that the archaeological evidence for the Goths is no more substantial than ‘the emperor’s new clothes’."
Archaeologists often work from the assumption that Jordanes is correct
[edit]Also see quotes above concerning the influence of Jordanes.
- Kulikowski p. 64: "why should the Wilebark-Sântana-de-Mureş/Černjachov connection seem so self-evident to so many scholars? One answer is an old methodology that seeks to explain changes in material culture by reference to migration. The other is Jordanes."
- Kulikowski p. 66: "the question has remained the same [...] can one prove or disprove Jordanes? For an archaeologist of the Goths such as Michel Kazanski, this is not even a question: the text of Jordanes tells us the Goths were at the Baltic, then in the Ukraine; therefore the material culture of both regions must be Gothic and we should study it as such."
Archaeologists generally accept the Vienna ethnogenesis model (no mass migration, not biological)
[edit]True mass migration is no longer considered likely
[edit]It is now especially considered unlikely for Scandinavia (though Heather has given a sort of weakened "invasion hypothesis" explained in more detail separately below). See the quotes.
- Steinacher, Roland (2017), Rom und die Barbaren. Völker im Alpen- und Donauraum (300-600), p. 48: Sicher ist nur, dass der Goten/Gutonen/Gauten- ebenso wie der Rugiername prestigeträchtig und prominent war, Unterschiedliche Verbände könnten sich solcher alter Namen bedient haben. [para] Die Archäologie ist sich groben Zügen darüber einig, dass ab der zweiten Hälfte des 2. Jahrhunderts materielle Kultur und Bestattungsbräuche aus dem Weichselgebiet Ähnlichkeiten mit jenen vom nördlichen Rand der pontischen Steppenzone aufweisen. Umstritten ist, ob die Gründe für diese Parallelen in der Möbilität kleiner mobiler Verbände, grösseren Migrationsbewegungen (wie man früher allgemein annahm) oder schlicht in Kulturtransfer zu finden sind. Für die traditionelle Vorstellung spielt dabei insbesondere der spätantike Gechichtsentwurf des Jordanes aus dem 6. Jahrhundert eine Rolle...
Rough trans: The only thing sure is that the Goten/Gutonen/Gauten [name], as with the Rugii name, carried prestige and was prominent. Different groups may have decided to use such old names. Archaeology is basically in agreement that in the 2nd half of the 2nd century, culture and funeral norms from the Vistula area were similar to those from the northern edge of the pontic Steppe zone. What is debated is whether the reason for these parallels is the mobility of small bands, or large migration movements (as used to be generally accepted), or simply a culture transfer. For the traditional account, Jordanes plays a role.
- Kulikowski p. 66: In 1970, Rolf Hachmann disproved the Scandinavian connection on archaeological grounds, thereby making necessary new theories of ethnogenesis such as we have looked at earlier.
- Heather 2010, p. 20. "Under the old view of unchanging closed group identities, if group X was suddenly encountered in place B rather than place A, it was only natural to conclude that the whole group had moved. Once it is accepted that group identities can be malleable, then in principle only a few - maybe even a very few - of group X need have moved to provide a core around whom a population from disparate sources then gathered."
- Halsall 2007, p. 134. "It seems most likely that in the confusion of the third century and, specifically, the Roman abandonment of the Carpathian basin a Germanic-speaking military elite was able to spread its power down the amber routes into the lands of the Sarmatians, Dacians, and Carpi and found a number of kingdoms, some grouped into a powerful confederacy."
- Steinacher, Hintergründe und Herkommen der Barbaren am Schwarzen Meer im 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. p.414: Die Frage ist jedoch die der Quantität und ob man nun einfach Gutonen und Goten gleichsetzen kann. Meiner Ansicht nach ist eher von einer stetigen Neuverhandlung bzw. Neudefinition gutonischer bzw. gotischer Identität auszugehen.
- Heather 2010, pp. 124–125: "Even Jordanes, in fact, preserves an echo of this more complex reality, All his accounts of Gothic migration incorporate a strong motif of sociopolitical fragmentation."
- Wolfram 1990, p. 37: "the question is not whether Scandinavia was the "original homeland of the Goths"; at best it is whether certain Gothic clans came from the north across the Baltic Sea to the Continent".
Heather's model of an semi-migration ("flow") from Baltic to Black sea
[edit]Among the best known scholars Heather comes closest to arguing for a significant movement of people, but only for the movement from the Baltic to the Ukraine. This mainly relies on evidence from 3rd century and after, and so an essential part of the argument is that, in exact opposite to Wolfram, Heather argues that the Goths excluded new members from their ethnic circle. (In)famously, Heather compares the Goths to the Afrikaners and keeps referencing an assumed pure Germanic "freeman" class (a narrative which has been negatively compared to 19th century romanticist narratives).
- Heather 2010, p. 127: But not all third-century activity is explicable in terms of small groups of a few hundred. The Gothic leader Cniva could not have defeated the Emperor Decius [...] Some of the action can be explained in terms of warbands, but not all of it.
- Heather 2010, p. 128: Groups numbering just a few hundreds could never have achieved so much.
- Heather 2010, p. 130: The extent to which groups of Germanic immigrants incoporated women and children at different stages of the expansionary process still requires detailed study. But one striking contribution of the Wielbark system to the Cernjachov was precisely in the field of female costume ... not found among Dacian-speaking groups of the Carpathians before the third century [CAUTION: Not a straightforward argument, because the Chernyakhov complex was in "Scythia", not Dacia at all, and in that region it did show continuity with older cultures.] ... The point is confirmed by the fact that the Goths, at least among these migrants maintained their Germanic language over several generations [CAUTION: Not a straightforward argument either, see Heather quote above saying Germanic language could have been from the Bastarnae. Also consider Kulikowski suggestion of common roots with the Vandals.]
- Heather 2010, p. 133: They clearly were flows of population, not the single pulses envisaged by the invasion-hypothesis model, and some of the action, especially in the early phases, was probably carried out by war bands. [...] Not as simple as the old invasion hypothesis, and not as antiseptic as an elite transfer, the Germanic takeover of the Black Sea region hovers somewhere between the two. [...] This much, however, is only an interim conclusion.
- Heather 2010, p. 165: The fact that the remains of the Cernjachov system are broadly similar right across the board does not mean that there were not distinct group identities within it. <para> It is extremely important, moreover, not to forget the general historical context. The Goths and other third-century Germanic immigrants into the Black Sea region won their place by right of conquest, and had come to enjoy the riches of the frontier zone. Given that background, it is unlikely that differences in identity between themselves and those they subdued would have broken down quickly, even if there weren't the same differences in physical characteristics that helped keep Boers and their new neighbours apart in an analogous situation after the Great Trek. NOTE: this racial purity speculation is what distinguishes Heather from Wolfram, who believed the Goths became militarily powerful quickly by pragmatically allowing the integration of new Goths.
COMPARE:
- Wolfram pp. 41-2 gives a completely different speculation which is non-racial and apparently based on medieval norms: The strength of the Goths lay in the kingship whose authority noticeably surpassed that usually found among Germanic peoples. As the central authority of the wandering tribe, the king could employ the resources of his smaller tribe more effectively than the leading stratum of larger, kingless tribal groups could use theirs. The Goths developed a great attraction for non-Goths - as, for example, for the Galindi from the Baltic area - because the Gothic kings decided questions of tribal membership quickly and on occasion against tradition. Finally, the Gothic kingship had the ability not only to form the exercitus Gothorum as a polyethnic group but also to structure it on the basis of retainership.
- Steinacher, Roland (2017), Rom und die Barbaren. Völker im Alpen- und Donauraum (300-600), p. 48: Sicher ist nur, dass der Goten/Gutonen/Gauten- ebenso wie der Rugiername prestigeträchtig und prominent war, Unterschiedliche Verbände könnten sich solcher alter Namen bedient haben. [para] Die Archäologie ist sich groben Zügen darüber einig, dass ab der zweiten Hälfte des 2. Jahrhunderts materielle Kultur und Bestattungsbräuche aus dem Weichselgebiet Ähnlichkeiten mit jenen vom nördlichen Rand der pontischen Steppenzone aufweisen. Umstritten ist, ob die Gründe für diese Parallelen in der Möbilität kleiner mobiler Verbände, grösseren Migrationsbewegungen (wie man früher allgemein annahm) oder schlicht in Kulturtransfer zu finden sind. Für die traditionelle Vorstellung spielt dabei insbesondere der spätantike Gechichtsentwurf des Jordanes aus dem 6. Jahrhundert eine Rolle... Rough trans:
The only thing sure is that the Goten/Gutonen/Gauten [name], as with the Rugii name, carried prestige and was prominent. Different groups may have decided to use such old names. Archaeology is basically in agreement that in the 2nd half of the 2nd century, culture and funeral norms from the Vistula area were similar to those from the northern edge of the pontic Steppe zone. What is debated is whether the reason for these parallels is the mobility of small bands, or large migration movements (as used to be generally accepted), or simply a culture transfer. For the traditional account, Jordanes plays a role.
- Kulikowski, "Nation versus Army: A Necessary Contrast?" p.71 footnote 9 writes: "Note that Peter Heather, ‘Disappearing and Reappearing Tribes’, in Strategies of Distinction, pp. 105-11, wishes to revive a biological approach to ethnicity." This article by Heather indeed argues that in dangerous times peoples avoiding mixing with others in marriage etc (citing a comment by Procopius about the Rugians) and cooperating with peoples of similar background, rather than becoming parts of bigger alliances.
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