[gothic-l] Re: Barbarians and Gladiatorial Combat

[Mikael Bynke]

Llama Nom,

Do you think that you have a reference to the mentioned theory of M Olsen's?

Mikael Bynke



>Hi Mikael,
>
>How did barbarians see the gladitorial combal? As paradise,
>according to one scholar! Have you heard of M Olsen's theory that
>Valhall was a memory of colloseum? As described in Grimnismal and
>Snorri's Gylfaginning, Valhall has 540 doors, and houses warriors >who

>spend every day fighting each other. Rudolf Simek, in his >Dictionary
>of Northern Mythology (original: Lexikon der germanischen >Mythologie)

>suggests that even if the orignal heathen idea of Valhall was not
>based on the Roman games, later knowledge of the colloseum could >have

>influenced the literary description. He also mentions - although I
>don't know the reason - that the number of the einherjar (Odin's
>warriors) might show Hellenic influence: 800 x 540 = 432 000. But
>this doesn't work if Grimnismal intended the Germanic 'long >hundred'
>(=120).
>
>Llama Nom

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