From: george knysh
Message: 59708
Date: 2008-07-31
--- On Thu, 7/31/08, indravayu <sonno3@...> wrote:
My entire argument is that you can't use a MEDIEVAL pseudo-history
(Lebor Gabala Erenn), as "proof" of some sort of irish folk memory of
a STONE AGE migration from Spain to Ireland, because the relevant
section of the LGE IS NOT ACTUALLY DRAWN FROM GENUINE IRISH
TRADITION!! What the f**k are you not understanding here??
- CG
****GK: He's worried that admitting your point might somehow affect his Odinist fantasies, based on acceptance of Snorri's fairy tales as genuine history. The latter ARE of course partly based on genuine "Old Nordic" folk memories (not the fictitious Roman connections, but the geographical ones, which reflect O.N. voyages up and down the Volga and Dnipro some few centuries prior to Snorri /the rest, e.g. "Troy" et sim. being drawn and adapted from classical sources/. We have some Slavic kooks who also believe, against all established scientific evidence, that Slavs originate from the Lower Danube (ultimately from the Tower of Babel-- the "Lower Danube" is allegedly folk memory left over after the learned borrowings from Bible etc. have been disposed of) simply on the strength of the Tale of Bygone Years. There IS a genuine folk memory here, but it is that of the Slavic presence on the Roman Danube frontiers in the 6th and 7th centuries. If Pedersen would
only understand that mediaeval texts need to be carefully analysed for content rather than swallowed wholesale, he would not make his childish mistakes re Irish sources. But then he would no longer be the Torsten Pedersen we all love and cherish would he? (:=)))*****