Re: [tied] Re: Vanir

I'm not going to demand that you should spend the rest of your life on the Solovki Islands, but I wonder why you don't open an e-group devoted to alternative Germanic history (and perhaps another one devoted to alternative historical linguistics). Anybody with a similar idée fixe could have fun there, euhemerising to his heart's content, while people interested in less eccentric theories would be spared a lot of annoyance.

Piotr

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From: tgpedersen@...

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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 12:44 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Vanir

... as I pointed out also about an "excellent" article Piotr referred me to, Rydberg takes for granted what he purports to prove. He does not ask the question "Do they tell the truth?" but says rather "Everybody knows this is not true. Now why are they telling this tall story?". The whole line of argument reminds me of a film clip I've seen on TV where Vyshinskij sums up one of the Moscow trials before the jury (if it wasn't just the audience). Not "they are guilty because the facts are so-and-so", but "is it humanly possible to understand the workings of the minds of these people?" "Shameless euhemerisations", indeed.