Originally Posted by
rothaer
Okay, this is real nonsense (from 1906) that is confusing times and identities.
The linkage is obviously an information by Bede and place names that Rugians were among the settlers. This is well possible btw.
The authors refer to the (non-Slavic, non-Germanic) IE Vistula-Veneds from abt. 100 AD, state that they were Slavic Wends and conclude that the Rugians (them being Germanics is proven by their various names in Later Rugilant in Lower Austria) that lived in nearby Pomerania must in fact have been Slavic Wends. The authors see themselves confirmed by the fact, that in the 9th century there were Slavs, the tribe of Rujans, on the island of today Rügen.
Obviously the Slavic expansion from abt. 550 AD on, that brought them to all over Eastern Germania magna and also later Eastern Germany, was not known to these authors.
Also they stick to an old erronous tale about Vandals being Wends, i. e. Slavs, as a fact. Not only that all known Vandal personal names from the migration period are clearly Germanic (like Geiserich, Hunerich etc.), but in later times we have the DNA sequenced from the assumingly Vandal chieftain DA119 (abt. 430 AD) from Deutschendorf-Matzdorf (Poprad-Matejovce in Slovakian) in Eastern Slovakia. This DNA is close to today Dutch DNA and has no proportion of Slavic-like DNA.
Also some irrational German nationalists that can not stand the idea that Eastern Germans do have a notable proportion of non-Germanic ancestry claim that all Slavs are just an invention and they in fact are all Eastern Germanics that by some evil actions just got that Slavic language imposed by - I don't know. However, various DNA finds, including the mentioned DA119, do confirm that Eastern Germanics did not have the well known Slavic-like DNA and the latter first spread with the Slavic expansion over Eastern Germany. So also that general equalizing of Eastern Germanics and Slavs should now be discarded by everyone that is accepting scientific DNA results.
