Re: Odin again?

--- In cybalist@..., malmqvist52@... wrote:

> Hi all,
> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >
>
> http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm
>
> I don't copy it fully unto here because my post is already very

long

> but Torsten perhaps would like to comment on this:
>
> The allies of Priam also included Ethiopians under Memnon;14 the
> Ethiopian allies of Priam must date in all probability to the

period

> when the Ethiopians were one of the most honored nations, highly
> regarded for their military prowess. What is called here Ethiopians
> were actually Sudanese: in Egyptian history the Ethiopian Dynasty

and

> their most glorious period is dated from ca. -712 to -663, when
> Ashurbanipal pursued Tirhaka to Thebes, occupied it, and expelled

the

> Ethiopian from Egypt proper. The tradition concerning Memnon, the
> Ethiopian warrior who came to the help of Troy, would reasonably
> limit the time of the conflict also to the end of the eighth and

the

> beginning of the seventh century.15 The possibility of an Ethiopian
> landing at Troy in the days of the Ethiopian pharaoh Tirhaka need

not

> be dismissed because of the remoteness of the place: as just said,
> close to the middle of the seventh century, and possibly at an
> earlier date, Gyges, the king of Sardis, sent in the reverse
> direction Carian and Ionian mercenaries to assist the Egyptian king
> Psammetichus in throwing off the Assyrian hegemony.
> ------
> Best wishes
> Anders

from Snorri's prolog:
Near the centre of the world where what we call Turkey lies, was
built the most famous of all palaces and halls - Troy by name. That
town was built on a much larger scale than others then in existence
and in many ways with greater skill, so lavishly was it equipped.
There were twelve kingdoms with one over-king, and each kingdom
contained many peoples. In the citadel were twelve chieftains and
these excelled other men then living in every human fashion. One of
the kings was called Múnón or Mennón. He married a daughter of the
chief king Priam who was called Tróáin, and they had a son named
Trór - we call him Thór. He was brought up in Thrace by a duke called
Loricus and, when he was ten years old, he received his father's arms.


Now that's interesting. It seems that Thor was a mulatto. Well - live
and learn I say. That sheds new light on his somewhat Tyson-like
behavior in other accounts.

Other that that I'm still digesting the rest of the posting. But it
all seems interesting.

Torsten