Re: That old Odin scenario ...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> damn, you might want to snip those behemoths down to
> size, so I can respond in context.
> It's no surprise there was a Roman presence in Ukraine
> and South Russia, The Romans ruled Greek colonies in
> Crimea and all around the Black Sea --see any map of
> the Roman Empire. They also --at times-- ruled Armenia
> as far east as the Caspian. They (or their Greek
> subjects) obviously would have dealt with traders
> plying the Volga and Don to the amber lands and the
> fur lands, etc.
> There was Roman contact with the Chinese. There's a
> story of a Chinese refugee from the Han or Chin
> dynasty who found sanctuary in Iran and whose
> descendants include virtually all of Europe and Asia.
> When the Muslims invaded Iran, some of his desdendants
> went to Byzantium, others to China, others stayed.
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The worst effect of the behemoths is that they draw attention away
from what I'm trying to say, which is that Odin took his troops to the
Proto-Slav Milograd culture, and migrated with some of those guys to
the Przeworsk area. This was the beginning of the dispersal of th
Germanic and Slavic languages.


Torsten