Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Re: The Spanish, Celts and Germans
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Originally Posted by Mynydd
As a part of the XIXth century Romanticism, in Sweden a cultural movement called Gothicismus created a confusion between the Geats and the Goths, and tried to link the inhabitants of Götaland to these.
But there is no certainty whatsoever that the Goths came from modern Sweden. Probably from the area of the Baltic. Anyway, the legacy of the Goths (for better or for worse, as I said earlier) lies in Spain. Not in Sweden.
And, anyway, this question was already settled in the Council of Basel, in 1434.
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This explanation, however correct it may indeed be, nevertheless shows that these things are easily mixed up. The proper name in Swedish of the movement you mention is actually Göticismen.
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