--- In cybalist@..., celteuskara@... wrote:
> God Aften, Torsten!
>
> >Vae victis yourself. Where are those "chronologically impossible
> >places" that "Odin" (as opposed to Odin) pops up?
> >
>
> You really are saying that Wodenaz or whatever we're to be calling
him at this stage really represents some real feller who lead such
easily reconstructable folk movements that were really so swift in
succession??
Yup!
I had thought Snorri and Saxo were repeating some sort of vague
memory, but if you'l forgive me I'm a little sceptical as to your
theory. I am intrigued though.
>
> I know nothing about such matters but does anyone else here want to
offer their version of the time depth of Germanic in the North?
Putting it back only to Pompey's day seems a little fanciful to me.
I thought we'd been knocking around since the Linearbandkeramik?
>
Mange tak og i lige måde.
Tacitus: Germania
2.3
"
...
futhermore the name Germania is supposedly of rather recent origin
and only come into use recently, since the first to cross the Rhine
and drive away the Galli, and now <...> |Tungri|, then were named
Germani. Thus it appears to be the name of an area (and not a nation)
which has gradually come into use thus, that they all at first were
called Germani by the name-giver |out of fear|, and then they also
called themselves Germani, when the name had been invented.
"
Torsten