Re: Germanic Scythians? - Snorri - Trojan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<jodan99@...> wrote:

> Snorri's "genealogies" shows a common trend in European epics: an

attempt of

> linking Germanic kingdoms to Trojan princes, following the pattern

built by

> Virgilius in Aeneid. Cf. Francus, descendant of Trojan Hector (in
> Franciad), founder of Franks; and Lusus, Dionysos's son, founder of
> Lusitania (cf. Camoes' Lusiad). Similarly, Snorri extend Danish

linneages to

> Norse gods, and further to Trojan kings.
>
> Joao SL
>

What were Camoes' sources (or precedents)?

Torsten