Fwd: Re: [tied] Re: That old Ariovistus scenario.

From: tgpedersen
Message: 64355
Date: 2009-07-08

> More here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Uppsala
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala
>
> 'In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Adam of Bremen
> provides a description of the temple. Adam records that a "very
> famous temple called Ubsola" exists in a town close to Sigtuna.
> Adam details that the temple is "adorned with gold" and that the
> people there worship statues of three specific gods that sit on a
> triple throne. Thor, whom Adam refers to as "the mightiest", sits
> in the central throne, while Wodan (Odin) and Fricco (Freyr) are
> seated on the thrones to the sides of him.'
>
> Wodan of the Æsir on one side, Freyr of the Vnir on the other, and
> Thor in the middle. One might guess that there has been some sort
> of syncretism.

BTW the Götar/Svear rivalry continues, in other forms, in Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6taland_theory

The article is a good example of the general tone of the discussion in Sweden.

Götaland, now mostly called Västsverige, is Volvo and Ikea country. Stockholm is in the center of Svealiand.


Torsten