Aesti

Those who came to be called Aesti seem to have come to be a people made up of a variety of other peoples who may have been attracted to the east Baltic shore by trade.

Those peoples seem to have come by sea and by land, drawn by the amber trade

They probably spoke an old Prussian which seemed related to languages spoken in the far western isles in the early days of Roman empire. They were seen as an independent people made up of a variety of tribes which included Irish, Scot, Wends and other Slaves, Swedes, Poles, Norsemen, and others.

They were overcome by Goths under Ermaneric* before the story of Beowulf was written.

*Ermaneric probably held sway over a vast territory from the Ukraine to the Baltic.

German

A Germanic people have been around for a long time. Although there hasn't always been a Federal Republic of Germany, and  there hasn't even been a Germany for very long, and even though it may be said that there wasn't even a German history until Roman times,the prehistory of the a Germanic people is very long.


German history for the world begins with Germanic peoples early contact with Rome. Rome came to them in the form of Roman Legions. They learned from those contacts. They learned to deal with the Legions of Rome.


Looking at German and Nordic myth and recent archeology I am taken back to, at least, 2700 BC, say about 5000 ears ago. I believe it fair to say that a people can have identifying traits. I'd guess that the identifying traits of Germanic peoples were well developed by 1700 BC.


Peoples I have called German or Germanic had contacts with peoples I call call Celtic, Baltic, and Slavic perhaps 5000, or more, years ago. I think that before that time they had contact with a people we might call Iranian.


These are just my best guesses at the moment. Ask me for evidence or provide me with some.


Romans may have been calling Germanic peoples Alimani, Franks, Chatti, Saxsons, Frisians, and Thuingii before Christ. How wrong am I?


Germans learned to defend themselves in fact of Roman Legions. Not much later they visited Rome.


I think that some of their early cultural development came through Prussian interaction with peoples around the Baltic Sea.


Without them we would not have gotten to kindergarten.

Pomeranians Aren't All Dogs

It seems some of my ancestors might have come to the United States from Prussia. Some of Prussia, it seems, was once Pomerania; so am I not part Pomeranian?


I've been trying to gather some understanding of the background of the Prussian people. Some people say that a Prussia people never existed.
Still there is evidence of people on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, at least, as far back as 15,000 BCE.


Here are some Prussian background notes I have begun to gather.
Kashubians(Cassubians)were Lechtic language speakers on the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers. The Cassubian language may have come from Pomerania. I read that Pomeranian is a Lechtic language which is a west Slavic language which has been called Old Prussian.
I'm not very sure of any of this yet. Still, when, as a child, I thought I heard someone calling me a slob, perhaps they were in truth calling me a Slav.


I think that some of my ancestors were in Ireland before the arrival of any Celts, but they stayed long enough to pick up some Celtic genes. And not all the Celts headed to Ireland got there by way of the Iberian Peninsula. Some of those Celts got there via the Baltic.
I also have some Norwegian ancestors who may have sailed the Vistula and Oder on their way to Byzantium.


It's an interesting area. Before the arrival of Christianity, there may have been Norsemen selling Pomerania amber to Romans.


Pomeranians are cute.


Not everyone would call Prussians cute, but they seem attractive enough to me so that I expect to bring more notes about them to these pages.