Creut or Kraut, means wheat or cerial growers and eaters, along with veg and herbs. Creuth-Hungi or Hangi, are a tribe along with Thervingi, used wood to heat pebbles or stones to cook Veg and meat by stacking it to be steamed, a Sauna is a housing used to for such activity as well as bathing or steaming fish. all nations of EuroAsia and japan ect use this method of cooking. "Greuthungi" may mean "steppe dwellers" or "people of the pebbly coasts".
[1] The root
greut- is probably related to the
Old English greot, meaning "gravel, grit, earth"
Polish grunt land, earth, ground
[2] This is supported by evidence that geographic descriptors were commonly used to distinguish people living north of the Black Sea both before and after Gothic settlement there and by the lack of evidence for an earlier date for the name pair Tervingi-Greuthungi than the late third century.
[3] It is also possible that the name "Greuthungi" has pre-Pontic Scandinavian origins.
[3] It may mean "rock people", to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the
Gauts(in what is today Sweden).
[3] Jordanes does refer to an
Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in
Scandza, but this may be legend. It has also been suggested that it may be related to certain place names in Poland, but this has met with little support.
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