Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., jekl@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >
> > Some more stuff:
> >
> > H.E.Davidsons commentaries to her translation of Saxo:
> >
> > 1.1
> > The phrase "á stodhum Danpar", by the shores of the Dniepr, is
> found
> > in the Icelandic poem The Battle of the Goths and the Huns,8 and
> the
> > name also appears in Atlakvidha 5. There is a king Danpr in the
> > Icelandic genealogies. The latin abstract of the lost Skjoldunga
> > saga, composed around 1200, refers to a king Dan I, with a son
> Danpr
> > and a daughter Dana, who married Rigr and had a son who was Dan

II.

> > Chronicon Lethrense: Dan saved the Danes from an attack by (an?)
> > emperor Augustus, and the Jutes then chose him for a king,

together

> > with the men of Fyn and Scania, so that the country of Denmark

took

> > his name.
>
> There were always people looking for some old glory for their people
> as you do now, including historians. There exists some chronicles
> written in Poland by a famous monk about the same time (a bit later
> actually) in which he talks about Polish princes fighting
> Alexander the Great armies, Rome and so on... The stories you cite
> must fall into the same category...
>

I can see that the reasoning: You take an example of a person who is
obviously wrong, from this you form by induction a general rule that
people who behave like that (I don't exactly see the details) are
wrong, and then by deduction you conclude that the several source I
cite are wrong.
I am not sure that this is the only genral rule you can form by
induction from your example. How about this: Everybody south of the
Baltic is wrong? ;-) I think I like that much more:)

Torsten

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> /Jerzy