Re: Tudrus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> At 4:58:51 AM on Sunday, January 16, 2011, Torsten wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <bm.brian@> wrote:
>
> >> At 4:52:47 AM on Saturday, January 15, 2011, Torsten
> >> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> It might seem surprising that I should use a putative
> >>> Greek substrate in the German dialect of Ashkenazi Jews
> >>> as evidence that Snorri might have been right about the
> >>> Odin invasion, [...]
>
> >> This fantasy has been ruled off-topic.
>
> > This is how I see that situation, scientific-method-wise:
>
> > me: Snorri might have described actual facts.
>
> > opposition: Sources written more than a couple centuries
> > after the fact are inadmissible (but Jordanes may be right
> > anyway).
>
> That is *not* the 'opposition' position.

What is the opposition position then?

> It is a caricature stemming from ignorance of medieval studies and
> the need to defend an idée fixe.

This is you attempt at a rational argument?

> I'm not going to argue the point, because on this issue you're not
> rational;

Oh, you won't attempt a rational argument, because I'm not rational?

> I'm merely going to remind you that Cybalist is not the place to air
> idées fixes,

Good, because I don't have any.

> and especially not when the horse has long since been reduced to
> quarks.

There was that horse again!


Torsten