--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>
>
> > Heyerdahl says 'Oltak' is the Armenian version of the name, but
> > doesn't provide a reference. Is Oltak mentioned by any other
sources
> > than Plutarch and Appian?
>
> The full story of Olthacus the Dandarian and his miscarried attempt
to
> assassinate Lucullus can be found here:
>
> http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lucullus.html
>
It does sound a bit like Snorri's description of Odin, doesn't it? I
can't find the story in Appian. Nor any other Olthak or Oldaba hits.
> Does Heyerdahl provide a reference to any Classical Armenian source
> where the name Oltak (or similar) occurs?
>
No, that's why I asked. The book is in the semi-scientific style he
used for the general audience. He does have a list of references (but
I couldn't identify where it might be from), and occasionally he has
verbatim quotes with a reference, but some times he doesn't, like
this time. That why I asked. (I shouldn't mention the passage where
he relates Odin's name to Russian 'odin' "one" since he was their
numba wan man).
Here's one reference he provides that should be of interest to George
Knysh:
Mark Shchukin:
Shields, Swords and Spears as Evidence of Germanic-Sarmatian Contacts
and Barbarian-Roman Relations, in
Beiträge zu römischer und barbarischer Bewaffnung in den ersten vier
nachchristlichen Jahrhunderten,
Claus von Carnap-Bornheim,
Lublin/Marburg 1994
Torsten