[gothic-l] Odin's Travel to the West and the Goths

[Tim O'Neill]

No, but his point is that when Roman writers speak of
a Germanic 'Mars' they seem to be referring to Tyr, not
Odin - who was generally associated with 'Mercury'.
The day-name analogs bear this out as well.  Grimm has
an extensive chapter on this IIRC.
Cheers,

Tim O'Neill

-----Original Message-----
From: Bertil Häggman [mailto:mvk575b at tninet.se]
Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2001 4:33
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gothic-l] Odin's Travel to the West and the Goths


JDM,

Thank you for your information on Tacitus. Is T.
in _Germanica_ specially referring to the Goths?

Gothically

Bertil

> About Gaut, and frankly anything else in this thread, I know nothing, but
I
> should mention that it is generally agreed that in Tacitus Mars is Tyr,
and
> Odin is Mercury. This is born out by the names of the days of the week
> (Mercurii and Martis dies are Wednesday and Tuesday repectively.)



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