--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> The phrase "รก stodhum Danpar", by the shores of the Dniepr, ...
> name also appears in Atlakvidha 5. There is a king Danpr in the
> Icelandic genealogies. ...
I found the same sort of thing with the Achaemenid Persian kings.
Greek sources give the usual list descending from Achaemenes. The
Persian inscriptions at Behistun or Bisutun give the same list,
although the native Persian forms look strange to the classically
learned: Hakha:manish = Achaemenes, Tahmasp = Teispes, Da:ryavush =
Darius, Khshaya:rsh = Xerxes. But when I looked in Firdawsi's poem
Sha:hmama about Persian history written much later in the early years
of Islam, his list of the Achaemenid kings was nothing like reality.