[gothic-l] Digest Number 362

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Troels wrote:

"Normally you talk about Gaut/Odin or Woden/Odin making Odin a
development from one or two gods, but you assumed Gaut to have a 19
years cycle. If you have nothing attested about the cycle of the
German Wodan before the calender of Aun began in 476, how do you then
know that his cycle was 8 and not 19 years like Gaut?

Isn't this a supposition too like Gaut?"

Well Troels, that's possible but since Wodan is hardly known even by
Tacitus who mentions him  vaguely I reckon his cult is well timed for
Roman influences and not so old in that shape.

Kindly
Ingemar

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