Rodhin

Japanese: Rodhin
Rodhin

...This hypothesis explains well why the names of the administrative units in Scandinavia are linked to numbers, and it also coincides with the description of the military and social organization of the Germanic peoples in Tacitus' Germania 6, but it seems too well-organized for a society in which population growth and settlement were left to nature. On the other hand, the Svean region along the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälar, which extends outside the aforementioned "tribal lands," was collectively called Rodhin (modern Roden). This place name is related to ro (to row) (incidentally, in Finnish, Swedes are called Ruotsi). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Rodhin" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この仮説は北欧の各級行政単位の名称が数詞と結びついていることをうまく説明し,またタキトゥス《ゲルマニア》6章でゲルマン人の軍事・社会組織についてのべた叙述とも符合するが,あまりに整然としているゆえに人口増も居住も自然に任せられていた社会にはうまくできすぎているように思える。他方先の〈部族地〉の外側に広がるバルト海・メーラル湖沿岸のスベア人地域はロジンRodhin(現代語ローデン)と総称された。この地名はローro(漕ぐ)に関係する(ちなみにフィンランド語ではスウェーデン人をルオチRuotsiという)。…

※「Rodhin」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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