Re: Geats

Okay, thanks.

I do recall that Lempriere's is good at citing classical authors in
most of his entries, but these were conspiciously absent for Odinus.

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> That never hurts :). But the real point is that Lempriere's story
> about "Odinus" is a kind of prescientific fantasy, in which he
tries
> to rationalise Germanic mythology by reducing it to a
> pseudohistorical narrative. It is worthless as a source, because it
> is not based on any real-world information.
>
> Piotr
>
>
> --- In cybalist@..., cas111jd@... wrote:
> > Sorry if you do not like my condensation from Lempriere's. Next
> time
> > I guess I should type the whole thing out verbatum with quotes,
> page
> > number, publisher and date published. :-)
> >