--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: I like the logic in this argumentation.
> (Whether logic is enough is another matter though
> (:=)))====Note however that the original "cremation
> only" order could also have been issued (if such a
> thing was issued at all) in the context of a
> discussion in the society as to whether inhumation
> might also be acceptable. With some "heretic" pointing
> to such practices elsewhere and threatening to
> implement them in his/her family. The order would thus
> confirm traditional practice. Ahhh the sinuosity of it
> all....*******
> >
True, that would be possible. Also, there doesn't seem to have been
much of a fight then (judging from lack of weapon bog sacrifices),
but let me check the sources again.
But if the new state of affairs was the result of a discussion
between indigenous leaders, isn't it strange that the outcome on Fyn
should the introduction of inhumation (predominantly) east-west (as
Iranian-speakers would do), while on nearby Langeland inhumation
graves are mostly north-south (as with certain unmentionable peoples
in the Caucasus)?
On the third hand, however, the first inhumation graves in
Scandinavia are in the Oslo fjord area. If the spread of inhumation
is the result of invasion, what battle plan for invading Scandinavia
would attack that area first (unless it was sea-borne, out of the
rivers south of the North and Baltic Seas)?
Torsten