Vinde-Lachi

We’ve previously drawn your attention to the curiously Slavic sounding names in the north east corner of Lake Constance around Lindau and Bregentz:

Edelitz
Engelitz
Grod
Lenkatz
Altwinden
Reutin
Belgrad
Koechlin
Kremlen (there are similar place names in Austria such as Krimml and eastern Germany such as Kremmen.

But there are others:

Raitnow
Guiken or Gwiken
Mulin
Lipach
Svitwitz (Svitwiss?)
Millow
Pirnaw
Prugna
Giesen
Boznau
Gatnau
Woitnow
Hemikoten (?)
Biesebg (berg? but nevertheless)
Indie
Arga – from the river (think Jason or maybe Jasion).

And, of course, Isny which also serves as a name for the Isnyer Ach.  Prior names include:  Ysne, Hisinina, Isine, Isenina.

If any of these were found in Brandenburg, they’d be declared for Slavic.  But they’re not and the dogma is that there were no Slavs around Lake Constance.

If there had been, then the name of the lake – Lacus Veneticus – would beg the question as to whether these Slavs were in fact the Vindelici of history.  One might also ask about why Poles were worshipping a deity named Boda in Poland and whether that Boda had anything to do with the Bodensee.  And if you ask that, then who really was Marbod?

We do not often make predictions but it seems to us there is enough here to conclude that these were a people that we would later call Slavs (most likely due to their merging with the Suevi and, later in Pannonia, possibly with the Jaziges).

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