From: tgpedersen
Message: 14940
Date: 2002-09-02
> Thor Heyerdahl's book by that title was published inTrue. People are wont to blow their top when they run low on
> Norwegian in late 2001. An English language version is
> expected to be available in November 2002. Here is a
> link to an extremely unflattering review of this opus,
> which dismisses Heyerdahl and his colleague as
> incompetent pseudo-scientists dabbling in matters they
> know less than nothing about. The rejection is so
> strong, in fact, that it might perhaps generate some
> doubt as to the whether Heyerdahl's book is that
> bad...Those of us who do not understand Norwegian will
> have to wait for the English text. But I find the
> critics' misunderstanding of the mediaeval dialogue
> form as a useful method for serious scientific debate,
> and their obiter accusations against Omeljan Pritsak's
> work (Heyerdahl certainly didn't get any of his Odin
> views from the latter!!) just as troublesome as the
> Heyerdahl contentions (if these have in fact been
> reported correctly).
>
> http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Nordisk/MaalogMinne/artikler/heyerdahl-v1.pdf
>