Re: Aesir and Vanir.

Hi Christopher

> "Thus, the Aesir are I-E, the Vanir are not I-E. Support for this

argument is that, while the Aesir

> deities have Germanic cognates (Odhinn=Wotan, etc...), none of the

Vanir do."

>
> If the Vanir have no Germanic cognates, how do you explain

Njordr:Nerthus and Yngwi(Freyr):Ingaeuones?

>
> "Freyja is specifically associated with seidr magic,
> which is more associated with the Finnish and Lapp populations of

Scandinavia"

>
>
> But Seidr has IE cognates - notably Welsh Hud "sorcery" (Soi
>
> I can't see this as being an accurate theory.

There is also the repeated dualism of two groups of warring Gods built
into much IE mythos (despite Dumezil's tripartite division). Titans
and Olympians, Tuatha de Danaan and Femorians, Asir and Vanir, Asuras
and Devas, etc.

John