[tied] Re: Germanic Scythians?

>
> But as I pointed out, if he took it from a translated Old Norse
> source, he would have rendered 'Veg-tam-' as *Wegtam,

not 'Wechtam',

> since he would have recognized (like everyone else,

apparently) 'veg-

> ' as a cognate of German 'Weg'. And I think it unlikely that he
> should have had access to Armenian or Georgian manuscript, or, if

so,

> been able to read them. Thus it remains a mystery, unless we assume
> there was a third, presumably German source, perhaps the one he
> claimed to have borrowed?
>
> And on top of that there remains the (you: 'superficial' )

similarity

> between Georgian 'Vakhtang', Armenian 'Vahagn', Runic 'vangijo',

the

> Germanic tribe Vangiones (also in Britain) and the name 'Vagn'
> (and 'Wayne')? Of course it won't stand of its own, it needs a lot

of

> more circumstantial evidence for there to have been a connection.
>

From a now defunct site of mythology I learn

(Avestan) V&reTragna = (Armenian) Vahagn = (Georgian) Vakhtang =
(Pahlevi) Vahram = Artagnes = (Phrygian) Hyagnis (male in at least
some sources), some of which are associated with Mars and Hercules
(plus Vahagn is the ancestor of a line of high priests). So, if
V&r&Tragna gets around this much, why not throw in the name 'Wodan'
too?

Torsten