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

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

--- In gothic-l at y..., MCLSSAA2 at f... wrote:
> 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".

Hi,

can I quickly jump in at this point to ask the question whether Odin
and Wodan are the same gods? How do the names compare? I know that the
 Frisians called Wodan also Othan, which seems close to Odin. So is
the one name simply the derivation of the other?

Thanks for the help
Dirk






> (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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