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Snorri: "...Tror whom we call Thór..."

Strabo, Geography 1.3.21
"
(on the emigration of certain peoples)
... and that [emigration] of [V]Enetians from Papghlagonia to the
Adriatic...
...
And the present treatise is full of such instances. A number of them,
to be sure, are matters even of ready knowledge to most people, but
the emigrations of the Carians, Trerans, Teucrians, and Galatians,
and like wise also the expeditions of the princes to lands far remote
(I refer to Madys the Scythian, Tearko the Ethiopian, Cobus the
Treran, Sesostris and Psammitichus the Egyptians and to Persians from
Cyrus to Xerxes) are not likewise matters of off-hand knowledge to
everybody. And those Cimmerians whom they also call Trerans (or some
tribe or the other of the Cimmerians) often overran the coutries on
the right of the Pontus and thiose adjacent to them... Oftentimes
both Cimmerians and Trerans made such invasions as these; but they ay
that the Trerans and Cobus were finally driven out by Madys, the king
of the Scythians...
"

13.4.8
"
Callisthenes says that Sardeis was captured first by the Cimmerians,
and then by the Treres and the Lycians...
"

14.1.40
"
...In ancient times, also, it came to pass that the Magnetans were
utterly destroyed by the Treres, a Cimmerian tribe, although they had
for a long time been a prosperous people, but the Milesians took
possession of the place in the following year.
"

Now does this mean that there was a Thor-worshipping Cimmerian sub-
tribe? Worship of Thor was a people thing in Scandinavia, Odin was
worshipped by the upper crust (the Odin people (?)). Did Thor arrive
with the invasion of the Cimmerians, or possibly the Trerans?

re: their leader Cobus

Klaudios Ptolemaios: Geographikè hyphégesis:
2.11.7
(on the Cimbrian Peninsula (Jutland))
"
...
On the peninsula itself are in the west the Sigulonoi, then follow
Sabalingoi, then Kobandoi, facing them Chaloi and then facing these
more to the west Phundusioi and more to the east the Charudes and
northernmost of all the Kimbroi.
...
"

Kobandoi?
(sabalingoi >? Salling, older Saling (populous peninsular south of
the Limfjord), + umlaut *seling, siling?)


Torsten