[gothic-l] Heyerdahl, the Goths and the Aesir

[Alburysteve at AOL.COM]

Hi:

>MCLSSAA2 at fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk writes:

> I am sorry to put a limpet mine on the ships of some people's
>  imaginations...

<snip>

>  AElfric the Anglo-Saxon author did the same with the Greek-Roman gods:
>  he claimed that they were the deified memories of a rather
>  disreputable family of humans who had lived on Crete.

Did he?  Well, unlike Heyerdahl's superficially researched and wildly
speculative work, Aelfric's nonsense has the redeeming quality of SEEMING
resonable, at least to anyone who's ever been to Crete.

Gothic content: the apotheosized scoundrels from ancient Crete were probably
not Goths.

Hairetismata,

Steve O'Brien
Albury, Ontario



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