From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 11361
Date: 2001-11-21
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:cf.
> >
> > --- 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".*****
> >
> >
> Yes, I've thought about that myself. It doesn't look good, does it?
> I'll go check on what they actually did here then.
>
> Torsten