Review article

Eruli Influence in South Scandinavia – Migration and Remigration

Bertil Haggman ; Helsingborg, Sweden

Abstract

The author treats the question of the influence of the Eruli in the north and their possible original home in south Scandinavia. The remigration of parts of the Erulic people from southern Europe to Thule (Scandinavia) and settlement near the remaining Gauts (Goths) in the beginning of the sixth century A.D., as described by historian Procopius, is reflected against traces of nomadic Eurasian horse culture in the province of Scania (the finds of Sösdala, Fulltofta and Vennebo) in the 5th century. Runestones in the Swedish province of Blekinge and the runic inscriptions ek erilaR (possibly “I, the Erule”) are compared to traces of Byzantine influence on the island of Öland (off the southeastern coast of Swden). The conclusion is that Erulic and other remigrators who served in the Roman armies might well have had an important influence on Iron Age society in the southern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.

Keywords

Eruli; Scandinavia; Migration Age; Eurasian nomad culture; Byzantine influence

Hrčak ID:

109429

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/109429

Publication date:

30.6.1999.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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