Re: Oltak

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

> --- 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
> >
> > Does Heyerdahl provide a reference to any Classical Armenian

source

> > where the name Oltak (or similar) occurs?
> >
> > Piotr
> ************
> As far as I remember, there is also a mythologic hero of Dardanians
> named Dandon. His charcteristic is to live very long life.
> If it be of any importance, I will find the source, even I doubt

how

> it should be segmented as Dan-don or Dand-on.
> For me, the name Oltak, sounds very Uralo-Altaic.
>
> Konushevci

That name rang a bell.

http://gd.cnread.net/cnread1/ewjd/g/gibbon/hor/029.htm

A Bastarnean Deldon. I've tried before to ascertain the provenance of
that remark, to no avail (eventually to find out what language the
Bastarneans spoke). Note that Gibbon heard the Odin story too.

Torsten