Re: Sin once more

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

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> --- On Fri, 8/1/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> Further, I'd like to point out that beside Hachmann's and Kossack's
> contributions in the 'Dreimännerbuch' on the archaeology of the area
> in the relevant period, I read Peschel too, which I translated
> pieces of for George
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> ****GK: If I haven't thanked you yet for this labour (I forget), let

me do so now. The translations were much appreciated.****

You have already. Don't worry about it.

> when it turned out that, in spite of his pronouncement
> that there could not have been any factual foundation for the claims
> of Snorri and Saxo of events in Germania at the time, he had no
> knowledge of the actual (pre)history of that area.
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> ****GK: Torsten the eel at work again.

But I think you shouldn't have been so categorical about what could
and couldn't have taken place in Germania at the time, given your then
knowledge on the subject.
And, BTW, an eel is someone who pretends other people's utterances are
about something other that what they are.

> The point is and remains that whatever you draw from Snorri and/or
> Saxo about "events in Germania at the time" has no relationship to
> either the history, pre-history,or archaeology of Eastern Europe
> east of the Bug, about which I have some knowledge (:=)).

Yes, we haven't discussed that much. Last thing you told me was that
around the middle of the first century BCE, some Iranian-speaking folk
attacked the, was it Zarubintsy? culture, forcing them to migrate
south to Galicia.

> Dream on Torstunsju/Torstenchyku (friendly Ukrainian diminutives
> both).****

Thank you George (my Ukranian is a little rusty).
Now be nice and I won't change your prehistory (too much).


Torsten