Re: [tied] legendary genealogies

I only take genealogy seriously for entertainment
value. I imagine anyone before Niall of the 9 Hostages
in Ireland and Ingjald Ill-Rada in Scandinavia is
mythological.
But I am interested in the names in the linguistic
sense and the stories behind them and the often
humorous incongruties


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> I once had a colleage who was crazy about royal
> genealogies.
> His core belief was :
> 1. in most cases, the credible names are the 10 to
> 15 first ones.
> They were retained by memory, by specialized people
> who were kindof hired to rememeber genealogies.
> Beyond rank 15, darkness looms.
> 2. average generation = 31 years
>
> By the way, he believed Troyan War was earlier than
> -1050,
> because you can't cram all generations with such a
> late date.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:00 AM
> Subject: [tied] legendary genealogies
>
>
> I was looking at Irish and Scandinavian legendary
> genealogies and was wondering if the names of
> these
> imginary kings actually mean anything or if they
> were
> just made up. I see recognizable elements in some
> of
> the names but others, especially the earliest just
> seem odd.
> Thorsten? Arnaud? Anyone else?
> What do you think?
>
>
>

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