Budinoi

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The Budinoi ( Greek  Βουδίνοι , also Germanized Budin ) were a nomadic people mentioned by Herodotus in his histories . They had blue / gray eyes and a reddish hair color. It was indigenous and mainly hunted. The Budinoi lived on spruce cones, and they also caught otters, beavers and "other wild animals with rectangular faces" in a deep, reed-surrounded lake. They sewed the fur of these animals to the hem of their coat, and the testicles were used as a remedy for diseases of the uterus. The contrast to the agriculture of the Gelonians is explicitly mentioned.

The Budinoi lived north of the Scythians , who lived on the north coast of the Black Sea on the Tanais ( Don ) river , in a land overgrown with dense forest. In the land of the Budins there was Gelonos , a permanent settlement made of wood, built according to Herodotus by fleeing Greeks from the trading centers of the Black Sea region. In contrast to the Budinoi, the Gelonians practiced agriculture. Herodotus names the Neurer and Thyssagetes as the western neighbors of the Budinoi , while the Argippaioi lived to the east of the Budinoi .

interpretation

Which ethnic group the Budinoi belonged to is the subject of numerous speculations (also because of the inaccurate information given by Herodotus): Ellis Hovell Minns sees them as the ancestors of the Permjaks or Woten , Aleksander Brückner for the ancient Balts , Zbigniew Gołąb for the ancestors of the Slavs . In general encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts from 1824 is suspected, the budini is that actually Wudinoi or Contact (suspected of slaw. Woda = water) called (because the Beta in classical Greek also for the sound [⁠ v ⁠] was ) and the Budinoi are therefore also interpreted as a proto-Slavic ethnic group.

The archaeologist Boris Schramko wants to identify the hill fort ( Ukrainian Horodyschtsche ) of Bilsk near Poltava with Gelonos .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 4, 108-109.
  2. ↑ Herodotus, Historien, 4, 109
  3. ↑ Herodotus 4:21
  4. ↑ Budini. In: Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911. Available on Wikisource .
  5. ↑ Aleksander Brückner : Starożytna Litwa. Ludy i bogi. Szkice historyczne i mitologiczne. Pojezierze, Allenstein 1979, p. 188.
  6. ↑ Zbigniew Gołąb: O pochodzeniu Słowian w świetle faktów językowych. Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych “Universitas”, Cracow 2004, ISBN 83-242-0528-4 , p. 166.
  7. ↑ Budini. In: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber (Hrsg.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Part 13: Briänsk - Bukuresd. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1824, pp. 341-342 ( online ).
  8. ^ Timothy Taylor: A platform for studying the Scythians. 2007. http://antiquity.ac.uk/reviews/taylor.html ( Memento of July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved June 10, 2013.