From: tgpedersen
Message: 19686
Date: 2003-03-11
>Folk etymology.
> > According to Hunibald, the people that came from the east
> > changed their language during their sojourn in Germania.
> > His work is generally considered a forgery, but he has an
> > interesting detail
>
> > http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grimmst/013_16.html
>
> > He uses the name Wechtam of a holy minstrel and singer, a
> > name reminiscent of the Old Norse name Vegtam-r, Odin uses
> > of him self,
>
> Note that the name has an obvious meaning in ON and is one
> of several similar constructions (<vígtamr>, <gangtamr>,
> <valtamr>). It would appear unlikely to be a borrowing.
> > but also of Vakhtang, the Georgian (I think it was)And that's what I'm claiming.
> > version of Iranian V&r&Tragna. Georgia is in the vicinity
> > of the old kingdom of Vani, where I suggested before that
> > the Vanir came from. Now how would a forger come up with a
> > coincidence like that?
>
> What coincidence, exactly? You've pointed to superficial
> resemblances between <Wechtam> and <Vegtamr> on the one hand
> and between <Vakhtang> and <Vegtamr> on the other. In order
> to claim that both are significant, you must further claim
> that there is a connection between <Vegtamr> and <Vakhtang>.
> This appears most unlikely, to put it mildly.