Why can't Odin's names like Valtamr or
Vegtamr be what they seem to be, i.e. transparent Norse epithets, like a hundred
or so others?
But look here:
The Old Prussian Enchiridion (1561)
mentions what must be ancient Baltic deities disguised as Christian
saints or celestial beings. Search the following page:
... and you will discover references to
<swints Engels> (79:19, 81:19) and <swints Marx> (111:19). [I owe
this observation to W. Schmalstieg.] The worship of Marx and Engels was briefly
reestablished in the same part of Europe almost 400 years later, and they were
claimed to have been real people, prophets of a popular religion of the time.
Narrow-minded historians ascribed to them the autorship of a holy brochure
dated at AD 1848. But if that were true, why are their names mentioned
in _exactly_ the right form in an Old Prussian document?
"Coincidence"?
Piotr
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:45 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic"
query]
I would be surprised if the Georgian name Vakhtang didn't have
something to do with V&r&Tragna too. Which makes Odin's names Vegtam
(road master?) and Valtam (battle master?) look suspicious too. Folk etymologies
based on the name of V&r&Tragna in some other (now lost)
language?