Talk:Jakten på Odin

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2003-06-30

Wilmer Thomas


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[edit] Was Odin a human?

[edit] Basis for calculations from Anglo-Saxon genealogies

This also was the hypothesis for Thor Heyerdahl in his last project, Jakten på Odin (The search for Odin).
Following Heyerdahl's calculations of 30 year/generation, the man named 'Odin' would have lived sometimes during the later 2nd, early 3rd century AD. The two Anglo-Saxon genealogies of Cerdic and Ida gives us a birth date for Odin sometimes, roughly, 150 - 200 AD. Some ancient kings supposedly lived into their 80s, and got kids late that inherited the kingdom... so a longer stretch of years is possible (but hardly shorter - for a son to grow up and inherit a kingdom, he should be at least in his 20s when the father dies?). So, calculating 40 years/generation would set a birth date for Odin to be around 100 - 150 AD.

[edit] Collaboration with Ynglinga saga and Roman wars in Asia Minor

Now, how does this add up with the Asa-peoples emigration from the Black Sea to escape the Romans? The simple truth is, it does not...

Heyerdahl & Lillieström takes another route, and deducts that a tribe of the Odin-people very possibly might have emigrated from Azov-lake around 60 BC, to escape from the Roman empire forces. This is compared with the genealogy of Ynglinga saga, were Njord, contemporary with Odin, is the ancestor of Norwegian and Swedish kings, and thus gives a valid 31 - 33 year mean per generration to match the year 60 BC.

So, it seems we have two different approaches to identifying a human being named Odin, that span at least 200 years apart. It just do not match...

[edit] Conclusions and hypothesis

How can this be matched?
It seems plausible that the Asas really emigrated from Azov/Asgård around 60 BC, but it certainly does not match the Anglo-Saxon genealogy as we have seen.

Is it possible to find a solution that combiness the Odin that emigrated from the Black Sea with the man that got to be worshipped as a god by the northern peoples?

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I'm sorry. I don't mean to offend (as I've done before to another user), but I frankly don't buy the whole 'Odin-people' bit from Azerbaijan. Here's what you need to do to (try to)convince me: bring linguistic evidence. After that, photos of the people definately couldn't hurt, though its completely understand if can't come forward with pictures. Its not that I doubt the plausability of it, as it is widely known that Swedes ventured far into modern day Russia through its vast river systems. Its that they would settle there (as opposed to trading) with enough population to maintain such an identity for 1k years and not be popularly known. D.E. Cottrell 05:05, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it certainly seems the work of crackpots. Scandinavians went to this direction, not the other way around. Whether it was Goths or Rus, the story has it that they went in a southeasterly direction. There is no evidence of this connection except through fantasy. The Volkerwanderung is the greatest factor in my reasoning to this matter especially since the invading hordes which came from the East were not in any way enjoyable to the Germanic tribes which the Swedes had been a party to. Kenneth Alanson 09:11, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
interesting. Dont delete other thoughts. This discusion history is deleters histery.
Archaeology is based on FACTS. There are no FACTS to suggest that Heyerdahl/Lillieström are right. They have based their theories on negative evidence, which means that you might as well suggest that Odin was a spaceman from Uranus or the moon. There is no evidence to contradict this theory either, so it is as valid as the H/L theory. Grumpy444grumpy 15:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
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