Hi Frank,

Since you are new to the list, you may not realize that
this is a _language_ list, not a list for the discussion
of theories of religion.

The rest of the participants in this discussion should,
I hope, already be aware of the focus of this list.

Does this book, or the theories expounded in it, have anything
to do with the study of the Old Norse language?

If not, please take this discussion to a more appropriate
mailing list.

Thank you.

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:58:10PM -0700, frank verhoft wrote:
>
> 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).

--
Arlie

(Arlie Stephens arlie@...)