From: tgpedersen
Message: 64732
Date: 2009-08-13
>Nice argument, since it doesn't apply to me. You may raise similar suspicions against Saxo, but not against self-employed Snorri. What makes me suspicious is the similar structure in the Lestek and Odin stories by authors who almost certainly didn't know each other: early exploits in Anatolia, later large realm in Germany.
> On 2009-08-13 10:32, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Live and learn. Kadlubek probably knew his classics.
>
> The story of Crassus' death was doubtless well-known to educated
> people in Kadlubek's time. Master Vincent's unique contribution was
> not the gold-pouring episode itself but the skilful way he
> intertwined it with the history of Poland, thus making his patrons'
> legendary ancestors big players on the political scene of Europe as
> far back as the Roman period (not to mention Alexander the Great).
> He certainly understood which side his bread was buttered.