Re: [tied] Geats

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., Håkan Lindgren <h5@...> wrote:
>
>
> > ... Anyway, if this is what Snorre says, given the distance in
>time
> and space (Snorre died in the 13th century), how much can we use
>him
> as a reliable historical source?]
>
>
> It's a bit like using the Aeneid (Snorri's literary model, complete
> with a hero coming from Troy)

How do you know that?

>as a reliable historical source.

Yes, and even worse, to read the Iliad as if it referred to an actual
event. And no wild claims from some German amateur archaeologist can
change this basic fact.

>I'm
> referring not to Snorri's accounts of Scandinavian affairs, which

are

> of course more reliable, but to the Prose Edda, and especially to

the

> Prologue, where he rationalises Germanic gods as ancient heroes

(and,

> being a Christian writer, justifies his preoccupation with them by
> pretending to write history).

How do you know that? If you had been a Public Attorney, I wouldn't
be much convinced. You have postulated (not proven) a motive for
Snorri to lie, and then you proceed to claim he did just that.

>Unfortunately, lots of people nowadays
> read Snorri uncritically.

Which means, I suppose, that you should reject everything he wrote of
Odinn and Asgard etc. And your reasons are?

> Piotr

Torsten