[gothic-l] Re: "Eruli", "Goths", "Danes" and wherefrom the runes

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I'd like to join your opinion with a small addition.

Odin/Wothan might have been a real person, a chieftain

(of course, not obligatory of "asses").

Compare please also the roots "vodim" in Baltic languages

(e.g. "vodimas" in Lithuanian meaning "ringleader")

and "vod" in Slavic languages (e.g. "predvoditel'"

also as "ringleader" and "voevode" in Russian).



Vladimir

-----Original Message-----
From: Troels Brandt <trbrandt at post9.tele.dk> [mailto:trbrandt at post9.tele.dk]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 6:55 PM
To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gothic-l] Re: "Eruli", "Goths", "Danes" and wherefrom the runes


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "konrad_oddsson
<konrad_oddsson at y...>" <konrad_oddsson at y...> wrote:

...
As far as I can see you have just argued that Odin could easily be a
king/chieftain/ancestor like Abraham. You forgot by the way to
mention, that "ansu" beside "god" also could mean "ancestor" (notice
the English word for it). Maybe Wothan's name in Norse spelling later
covered or replaced the original name of the first remembered king in
the lineage - he became a god or a kind of a divine ancestor - an
Augustus. Maybe that is why you can find Wothan both in Scandinavia
and in England as the first at some of the lists of kings. Maybe
authors like Saxo and Thorolf later due to political reasons filled
up some of the lists in order to make the dynasties older than their
competitors
...
Troels


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