Re: Is Lars a Etruscan name?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> > > That's exactly what I thought. The idea of
> > > Scandinavian Lars as Etruscan
> > > seemed absurd to me. Lars is an Etruscan name
> > (Lars
> > > Porsena) but it's just
> > > coincidence.
> >
> > *****GK: BTW is this an Etruscan name or a title (or
> > both)?*****
>
> P.S. While this "Lars" business is obviously a
> coincidence, we must not forget that there were
> contacts (probably some early version of the amber
> trade?) between Etruscan Italy and the Baltic shores.
> The best evidence of this is the adoption of face-urn
> burials (Etruscan inspired) by the early phase of the
> Late Lusatian (Pomorian) culture in the 6th c. BC.
> >

*****
Lars was a name only. At least it isn't entered as a word in
Pallotino's (1975) vocabulary.
On Etruscan-Baltic connections. I think I remember reading an
argument that the runic alphabet was inspired specifically by the
Etruscan. Does this idea have any currency?
Dan