Re: Germanic Indians

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 10734
Date: 2001-10-30

--- In cybalist@..., malmqvist52@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> Not the right
> > forum, I suspect. Personally I suspect Odin is related to Aton-
> Adonis
> > etc
>
> Hi Torsten,
> Have You seen the <rawwo:adonsufhe> runic inscription on a spindle
> whorl(4th c.)from Letcani in Romania?

Yes, very interesting! Given this Adon and Odin's by-name AuDun,
perhaps there is common name behind and then it is Wodan/Odin's
connection to anger (*wot/*wet-/*ut?, regularized differently in
North and West Germanic) that is a (n ancient) folk etymology?

Torsten