Re: more Geshur- Sorry

> From e g Ugarit we know of Baal-Hadad. Was it Baal-Zer-Hadad in Zer?
> I can't help see the namelikeness with the nordic Balder-Hod. These
> two were also aspects of the same god( the takeover after Odin), or
> twin gods perhaps.

Please tell me you are kidding.

> BTW the Baal-Balder connection seems aknowleged by some scholars,

and

> the zer-der-part would be easily explaind as a normal z>d
> correspondance Hebrew/Aramaic.

And what "scholars" would these be? Please don't say Robert
Graves...I will lose all respect for you.

No modern Germanic or PIE scholar that I have ever read maintains
that there is any type of linguistic connection between Semitic
Baal/Bel [from Common Semitic *bCl- "lord"] and Norse Baldr (from
Germanic *balthaz "bold", ultimately from PIE *bhel-[2] "swell/blow").

- Chris Gwinn