Hi everybody

I feel a bit sorry to write my first mail with a kind
of weird feeling.

Eysteinn Bjornsson wrote:
"The theological ideas in this paragraph are far
removed from any linguistic reality. Who is this Green
anyway? Sounds like a theosophist to me - shades of
Madame Blavatsky...."

in a reaction to Steven Hatton's mail:
"I've been trying to summarize Green's chapter on
Germanic religious
termonology. I'm wondering what others who have more
knowledge of the
subject think of what I have so far."
[snip] [snip] [snip]


I can hardly find anything in Steven's mail, apart
from the references to the Germanic words which are
quoted and treated in the book, that resembles the
theory stated by Green. And though i can imagine that
the book provokes reactions on linguistic and or
historical bases, the level of Blavatsky-ness is less
than zero. In the *book* (and imho) at least.
Since i'm only an amateur who happened to lately have
read Green's "Language and History in the Early
Germanic world", i'm rather looking forward to a more
close reading of it, and some comments and critiques
on the original text, and not on an odd interpretation
of it (and i don't want to sound offensive at all).

Best regards,


Frank Verhoft

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