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The Estonian word for "Estonia" is "Eesti." Similar to Aesti... any significance? --Vix05 19:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Good article; I'm glad to see that someone wrote about this. I cleaned it up a little and added a reference to the Nordic Bronze Age, in order to make it clear that the Baltic amber trade went back much further than Roman times. I'd prefer if we could be clear on which language Tacitus said theirs was related to; I'm assuming the Celtic languages of Britain but I need to check the original passage. - --Breadhat 16:49, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I copied latin text about Aesti from book, since I don`t know latin I might have misspelled something - if so I`m sorry for that
"Aesti etiam mare scutantur
...Dextor Suebici maris litore Aestiorum gentes alluuntur, quibus ritus habitusque Sueoborum, lingua Britannicae propior. Matrem deum venerantur. Insigne superstitionis formas aprorum gestant; id pro armis omnique tutela securum deae cultorem etiam inter hostes praestat. Rarus apud eos ferri, frequens fustium usus. Frumenta ceterosque fructus patientius quam pro solita Germanorum intertia laborant.
Sed et marescruntantur, ac soli omnium sucinum, quod ipsi glaesum vocant, inter vada atque ipso in litore legunt. Nec quae natura aut quae ratio gignat, ut barbaris, quaestium compertumve est; diu inter cetera eiectamenta maris lacebat glaesum istud, donec luxuria nostra dedit nomen. Ipsis in nullo usu est: rude legitur, informe perfertur mirantes accipiunt.
Sucus tamen arborum fortasse est, quia terrena quaedam atque etiam volucria animalia pelerumque interlucent, quae implicata humore mox direscente materia cluduntur. Fecundiora igitur nemora lucosque sicut Orientis, ita Occidentis insulis terrisque inesse crediderim, ubi tura balsamaque sudantur, quae vicini solis radiis expressa atque liquentia in proximum mare labuntur ac vi tempestatum in adversa litora exundant. Si naturum sucini admoto igni temptes, in modum taedae accenditur alitque flammam pinguem et olentem; mox in picem lentescit." Xil 11:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Ostimii
I found a book that suggests the Osismii or Ostimii of Strabo and Pytheas were the Aestii. It is a good theory and I wrote a section for this article based on it. However it is not a compelling theory and after looking the material on the Celtic Osismii I changed my mind. So, I am deleting most of that section, which I had under Strabo and replacing it with a note giving that view and that references. I am not restoring the entire article however partly because of its inaccuracies which I corrected and also because it needs expansion and I did set up for expansion.Dave (talk) 15:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
