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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:40:54 -0500
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From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
Subject: Re: Odin
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Of course:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1353000/1353343.stm


At 09:19 AM 30/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>This was in today's NYTimes.  David Meadows, do you have more information 
>on this?
>
>DW
>
>
>NORWAY: NEW THEORY ON NORSE GOD
>               The Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl says the Norse 
> god Odin is based on a real chieftain who led
>               a band of warriors from his kingdom in southern Russia to 
> Sweden almost 2,000 years ago. He said
>               excavations in Azov, Russia, revealed jewelry, belt buckles 
> and other articles from around the time of Christ
>               but resembling those of the Vikings, who terrorized much of 
> Europe from 793 to 1100. The Azov findings, he
>               said, lend credence to a fanciful 13th-century saga that 
> portrays Odin as a human king who fled north to
>               escape Roman expansion.
>                  Walter Gibbs (NYT)

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