Re: Aesir and Vanir.

From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 1118
Date: 2000-01-24

"Thus, the Aesir are I-E, the Vanir are not I-E.  Support for this argument is that, while the Aesir
deities have Germanic cognates (Odhinn=Wotan, etc...), none of the Vanir do."
 
If the Vanir have no Germanic cognates, how do you explain Njordr:Nerthus and Yngwi(Freyr):Ingaeuones?
 
"Freyja is specifically associated with seidr magic,
which is more associated with the Finnish and Lapp populations of Scandinavia"
 
 
But Seidr has IE cognates - notably Welsh Hud "sorcery" (Soi
 
I can't see this as being an accurate theory.
 
-Chris Gwinn