[tied] Re: "Odin of Asgard"

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> > wrote:
> > > *****GK: Note that you have a much bigger problem
> > than
> > > the Geta-Goth assimilation. According to Strabo
> > and
> > > Pliny, the Getae were the same people as the
> > Dacians.
> > > And the Dacians were certainly not Goths.*****
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > No, it looks like I'd have to prove that Danes =
> > Dacians, right?
> > Watch this space.
> >
> > Torsten
>
> *****GK: Please don't Torsten, at least not on my
> account. I don't want to be reduced to having to argue
> that the Polabian Ukrani were the ancestors of modern
> Ukrainians (:=))). The hunt is over, and you've
> reduced the dead horse to fine powder. Now you're
> beating the ground. It's been fun of sorts but there
> are more serious matters to attend to. I was amused by
> your approach since it reminded me so clearly of what
> the late American philosopher and political theorist
> James Burnham characterized as "ideological thinking".
> I'll post a paragraph or two from him in a day or two
> and call it quits.*****
>
>
>
>

The idea that there is a connection between Dacians and Danes is an
old one as you probably know. I claim the identity of course partly
tongue in cheek, but, according to mr. Popper's recipe, as long as I
have not been proven wrong, the theory is a working theory. Please do
post some paragraphs of mr. Burnham's work; I have had been similarly
reminded myself.
BTW I must retract the claim that proving the Dacians and the Goths
to be in the same place and time would refute my "theory"; the idea
was to claim (with Jordanes) an identity between Getae and Goths, the
Dacians being a separate people (although speaking the same
language).


Torsten