Re: [tied] legendary genealogies

I once had a colleage who was crazy about royal genealogies.

His core belief was :

1. in most cases, the credible names are the 10 to 15 first ones.

They were retained by memory, by specialized people

who were kindof hired to rememeber genealogies.

Beyond rank 15, darkness looms.

2. average generation = 31 years

By the way, he believed Troyan War was earlier than -1050,

because you can't cram all generations with such a late date.

----- Original Message -----

From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:00 AM

Subject: [tied] legendary genealogies

I was looking at Irish and Scandinavian legendary
genealogies and was wondering if the names of these
imginary kings actually mean anything or if they were
just made up. I see recognizable elements in some of
the names but others, especially the earliest just
seem odd.
Thorsten? Arnaud? Anyone else?
What do you think?

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