Re: Tudrus

At 4:58:51 AM on Sunday, January 16, 2011, Torsten wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>> At 4:52:47 AM on Saturday, January 15, 2011, Torsten
>> wrote:

[...]

>>> It might seem surprising that I should use a putative
>>> Greek substrate in the German dialect of Ashkenazi Jews
>>> as evidence that Snorri might have been right about the
>>> Odin invasion, [...]

>> This fantasy has been ruled off-topic.

> This is how I see that situation, scientific-method-wise:

> me: Snorri might have described actual facts.

> opposition: Sources written more than a couple centuries
> after the fact are inadmissible (but Jordanes may be right
> anyway).

That is *not* the 'opposition' position. It is a caricature
stemming from ignorance of medieval studies and the need to
defend an idée fixe. I'm not going to argue the point,
because on this issue you're not rational; I'm merely going
to remind you that Cybalist is not the place to air idées
fixes, and especially not when the horse has long since been
reduced to quarks.

Brian