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

[MCLSSAA2 at FS2.MT.UMIST.AC.UK]

Is this thread leading anywhere useful? To me, it is plain what
happened:-
(0) The word [AEsir] (pl.) < [Ansuz] (sg.) and the names of the Norse
gods are native to the land.
(1) Odin < Wo:danaz means "the mad or furious one", which a wargod
might be, compare Anglo-Saxon [wo:d] = "mad".
(2) Vikings from Sweden travelled across Russia via its great rivers
and explored around the Black Sea and there some got to the Caucasus
and heard of the Azeri people.
(3) News of this got back via returning Vikings to Snorri Sturluson,
and he imagined a connection wth "AEsir". He may have been influenced
by a Christian desire to debunk the old pagan gods.
(4) To Thor Heyerdahl, Snorri's story had an aura of respectability of
antiquity, and so he goes to Azerbaijan after an old red herring.



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