Re: Language - Area - Routes

--- In cybalist@..., MCLSSAA2@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > The phrase "á 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.

I wonder what "the same sort of thing" means here. That all
genealogies of kings are wrong? What do you think of Manetho's list
of Pharao's then?

Torsten