Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, James Dow Allen <jamesdowallen@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Obviously the 5th century migration is too late
> to explain North Germanic, let alone Germanic.
> How early is the name Odin/Wodan attested?

1080, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
The Danish historian Johs. Brøndsted finds the claim 'that Odin
arrived in the Nordic region ca. 70 BCE more respectacle than one
might think'.
http://www.jcbang.dk/main/runes/RHMfebruar02redjuni2006.pdf

>
> Torsten asked:
> > James wrote:
> >> the R1a
> >> Y-chromosome haplogroup present in Scandinavia
> >> could be explained by immigration of originally
> >> Iranian- or Hunnic-speaking warriors.
> >
> > I think you mean the I1 group?
>
> No, I didn't. Ignoring N (Saami related) in the North,
> Norway's males are roughly split into equal thirds
> of I1, R1b and R1a. The first two are paleolithic
> Western European; it is the R1a that "needs" an
> Eastern European or Asian explanation.

OK.


Torsten