Re: Dudo/Herodotos- parallell long sought

--- In cybalist@..., malmqvist52@... wrote:

> Isn't this also the lot that settles the deal if anything?

Erh, yes, but the same story is told of how the Etruscans got to
Italy. This is probably how they did it.

> I just can't help see some similarities here to Agathyrsus in the
> Bewulf Ongentheow and the Angantyr in the Icelandic sagas. E g. the
> the one from the <holmgång> on Samsö.
>
> Then the question of the naming of Samsö arises again. Has it
> anything to do with the way the Thor/Hercules figure in the Old
> Testament, Samson is thought to have gotten his name- from the
> Assyrian sun-god Shamash or a corresponding figure?

My uncle, Jon Galster, wrote "Guldhornenes tale" in which he claims a
connection between the Sun-god Shamash and similar worship in the
North, as evidenced by: Samsö, (one might add Samland in East
Prussia), Sami, Suomi, Samoyed. I must say it is not considered
good style to assume connections between Afro-Asiatic (or Semitic)
and Indo-European (and Finno-Ugric) languages, because of the large
temporal distance between the language families. But as a loan, who
knows?

Strabo says that the island Samos was settled by Thracians and that
in that language the name means "height", which fits in nicely with
eg. Latin "summus". Were the people who named Samsö IE-speakers? Very
little evidence.

> Best wishes
> Anders

Torsten