re: ais, eis (god, divinity).
"
Plural: aisar, aesar eisar, eiser, ais-er, ais-ar. Variants: aisuna
(Rex Sacrorum), eisnev (priestly title), aineri ("to be worshipped"),
aisna ("divine"). Cf. N. Picene aiten; Umbrian esono- Marrucian
aisos, etc. all meaning `god" or related activities such as "worship"
or "sacrifice.
Benveniste proposed a connection with Celt. and Goth.*isarn (iron) as
the "Celestial metal". ... If he is right, the word is also related
to Skt. ayas (iron, metal), which is even closer to the Etruscan
form, and also has the same meaning. But then we also have a
connection with Lat. aes, Teut. ais, Them. aisa, Germ. eisen, etc.,
which Monier and other authorities connect with the Skt. name of the
dark metal.
"
I found this in
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/etrus2.html
Me: Wasn't there an "Iron People" on the Sea of Azov"? Aes-people
(Strabo)?
Roger Bacon (1214-1292), Opus Majus, describing the Caucasus area:
"In the east is the mountain area of the Alani and Aas peoples. They
are christian, and they accept all Christianity, Roman as well as
Greek, so they are not secterian."
In another book by Juan de Plano Cartini (b. 1182) and Guillame de
Rubrique (b. 1215), the same branch of the Alani people is mentiones
again as Aas, and as Greek Orthodox in a world of muslims, just the
Odin people in Caucasus today.
Thor Heyerdahl, in:
http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/d177917.htm
cf.
http://www.bgnett.no/~sjar/erildane.html
http://www.bgnett.no/~sjar/Vanir.htm
http://www.bgnett.no/~sjar/Volvewitch.htm
Torsten