From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 11153
Date: 2001-11-16
--- In cybalist@..., celteuskara@... wrote:
> AAaaargh! Torsten, stop it please! Snorri and Saxo's stories, are
shameless euhemerisations, as Chris Gwinn has so rightly pointed
out. They are in exctly the same vein of Mediaeval and Classical
scholarship as the stories of Aeneas founding Rome, or that other
Trojan Brutus naming Britain. [No offence to the great memory of
Snorri Stuluson, who was only following the example of what was
thought in those days to be the best possible methodology. I have a
little less sympathy for Saxo, who seems to have had less respect for
his people's traditions] You say you are well acquainted with Viktor
Rydberg's 'Germanic Mythology' but I would like to hear why you don't
agree with his account of the euhemerisation process.
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