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tgpedersen@... wrote:
I said the person
> "Odin" was named after
> the divinity Odin, who was known long before.
*****GK: Here is a passage from the Heimskringla:
"8. ODIN'S LAWGIVING.
Odin established the same law in his land that had
been in force
in Asaland. Thus he established by law that all dead
men should
be burned, and their belongings laid with them upon
the pile, and
the ashes be cast into the sea or buried in the
earth."
The universal burial rite east of the Don in the time
of Mithradates (no exception) was INHUMATION. How does
your theory about "Odin" explain the above citation,
viz., the establishment of CREMATION "by law" and "the
same law... that had been in force in Asaland".*****
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