From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1889
Date: 2000-03-17
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: Mark Odegard <markodegard@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:02 PM
Subject: Odp: Praeneste fibula
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Odegard <markodegard@...>
> To: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:54 PM
> Subject: Praeneste fibula
>
>
> Mark writes:
> Yeah. If it's a forgery, it's on the order of Piltdown Man
or
> the Donation of Constantine.
>
I've checked the links you sent. Fascinating. The
inscription so PERFECT linguistically that one hopes it will
not turn out to be a hoax in the end. It's like hearing that
the Galhus Horn inscription was forged.
"Slovo o polku Igoreve" (The Tale of Igor's Campaign), the
greatest monument of Old Russian literature, has been
regarded as a hoax by some Slavicists (unfortunately, the
manuscript was destroyed in the fire of Moscow in 1812)
mainly on account of being too perfect to be true, though as
far as I know the majority view at present is that it IS
authentic after all. Come to think of it, "Beowulf" also
stands apart from the other Old English literature.
Piotr