Re: Etymology for (Caucasian) Albania

--- In cybalist@..., "tarasovass" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Vishal Agarwal" <vishalagarwal@...> wrote:
> > Interestingly, Pliny seems to locate 'Albania' in N W India!! See
> below - [etc]
> >
>
> Thank you for this interesting (and unexpected) connection. What
> puzzles me is that all the sources I got at hand consistently state
> that ancient Albania was located in today's Dagestan, west to the
> Caspian sea. I mentioned the Alans because of probable NE Iranian
> infiltration to the territory under question/
>
> Sergei

It gets much worse than that. Heyerdahl, according to press,
has "dicovered" on "Odin-people" in the presumed Odin home,in
Dagestan, namely the Udi. And they are known to linguists as the
possible decendant of classical Caucasin Albanian!

see

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/Uog.html
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/Udigen1.htm#Alwan
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/Udigen1.htm#Contact

Torsten