Re: more Geshur- Sorry

--- In cybalist@..., "malmqvist52" <malmqvist52@...> wrote:

> Thanks Piotr and Chris,
> for the info.
>
> I'd just like to add that the scholar I had in mind was Ingemar
> Nordgren, who in Goterkällan p. 111 writes:
> "...Mycket tyder på att Bal[th]r - åtminstone till namnet - är ett
> yngre tillskott. Däråt pekar såväl namnet på honom som på hans

maka -

> Baal och Nanna/Inanna är kända i orienten - och Forsete kan närmast
> associeras till Fosites-land och kan ha kommit sjövägen med
> friserna..."
>
> Transl.
> Much points to that Bal[th]r - at least to the name - is a yonger
> addition. In that direction points both the name of him and his

wife -

> Baal and Nanna/Inanna are known in the East - and Forsete can
> closest be associated with Fosites-land and can have come the sea
> route with the Friesians.
>
> Normally I don't agree with what IN writes in his book, so maybe I
> shouldn't pay attention to this either.
> I have also understood that it is bad manners of me what I'm doing

in

> these posts. I will therefore stop with it now.
> I hope You don't judge me too hard for this, and also look to my
> other posts for the total impression of me.
> I'm again sorry for any inconvienieces.
> Anders

I hope it is not my remark that "nice people" didn't compare Afro-
Asiatic and IndoEuropean languages that has caused this reaction from
you; because it was meant only in a half-serious way. In that sense I
have sinned against the "good manners" much more than you have, see

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/austric.html

and, relating to Baldr particularly:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html

In that sense I myself am not a "nice person"; I still stand by what
I wrote there. I expect to get flak for it and it so happens (and to
everyone else: but of course one can be tactical and make an estimate
of whether a discussion will be productive). You have not caused any
inconvenience here, at least as far as I am concerned.

Torsten