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tgpedersen@... wrote:
> >
> > ******GK: What is (probably?)true are the Turkic
> items
> > independently assessed, and some historical
> > statements. What is CERTAINLY false is the
> application
> > of these items to Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans.
> (Torsten) Because?
*****GK: Because Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans,
judging by the anthropometric studies of their
gravesites do not exhibit any "Altaic" traits (except,
to a very small degree, in "contact zones"
considerably further to the East.) And because what we
know of their languages indicates that these were
Indo-European not Altaic. And because not until the
time of the Huns do we get names in Europe that can be
indubitably etymologized as Turkic. The site you have
accessed is "kooky" even if not as kooky as that of
the Azerbaidjan professor.******
>(Torsten) The jury is back and my horse is proclaimed
dead.
> Alas,
> my kingdom for a horse! Or would I please park it
> 3000 years sooner or 500 years later?
*****GK: And now with Heyerdahl perhaps 200 years
later (:=))*****
>
> (Torsten)I think it would be interesting to hear why
you have
>
> become convinced that the theory doesn't work? I
> love
> a good argument?
******GK: Your theory has been restated and refined a
number of times. Why don't you make a new beginning
and enunciate it once more,in the light of your
current improved perceptions, so there are no
misunderstandings. One thing I didn't get, for
instance, is whether you considered Odin and his band
of merry men and gals to have been Germanic in speech
while yet at Asgard.******
>
> And this is what might have happened to Ra-Volga:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/7451
*****GK: ???? This doesn't explain why Snorri didn't
know the river. One "solution" was that old
geographers confused the two (Don and Volga) as
one.****
>
> Torsten
>
>
>
>
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