[tied] Re: Oltak

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

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> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:43 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Oltak
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > >
> > > He points to Plutarch's reference, in 'Bioi paralleloi', to one
> > > Oltak, ruler of the 'Dandars' (sic, Dardans? "one of the tribes
> > > living in the coastal ares of the Maeotic Sea"), in Mithridates'
> > > army.
> >
> > Olthakos
> >
> > http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lucullus.html
> >
> >
> > Torsten
>
> Torsten, does Oltak sounds germanic at all?

No, have I said it should? I assumed it was somehow related to
Iranian V&r&Tragna (and Wodan), as I wrote. Snorri (I think it was,
but I can't find the reference) says Odin had so many names since
that was how the various peoples called him

Torsten