[gothic-l] Re: Odin the man - medieval scholarship at its best

[vernonpeberty <vernonpeberty@yahoo.com>]

"Vladimir in response to Troels: 
> 
> I'd like to join your opinion with a small addition. 
> Odin/Wothan might have been a real person, a chieftain 
> (of course, not obligatory of "asses"). 
> Compare please also the roots "vodim" in Baltic languages 
> (e.g. "vodimas" in Lithuanian meaning "ringleader") 
> and "vod" in Slavic languages (e.g. "predvoditel'" 
> also as "ringleader" and "voevode" in Russian).
> 
> 
> Vladimir

The hypothesis that Odin was a person is medieval scholarship at its 
best and reeks of Judeo-Christian bias against European natives. The 
Slavic forms obviously show medial d. How would you then account for 
the influence of Verner on the Germanic word? How would you account 
for the â-to-ô shift? The linguistic evidence makes it painfully 
clear which hypothesis is the correct one. The fact that the Asian 
equivalent is also a wind god drives the final nail into the coffin 
of this medieval church scholarship. They ought to award the Nobel 
Prize to whomever it was who first discovered this derivation. He 
may not have discovered a new law, but he did destroy centuries of 
dark superstition. Vernon Peberty


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