Romans In Denmark.

[cmacq]

nice explanation! you are totally correct about the temperature change cycle.

So, they are teaching this in school now? If so, great as I've been watching this Global Warming craz develop on TV over the last three years and quite frankly, I can't believe the utter insanity.

what i find interesting about the Substrate Hypthosis concerning Germanic languages is the Old Norse relationship of the Vanir and the Aesir who had a war but then intermarried, this relationship is very interesting concerning possibly native non-Indo-European fertility cults and the Nerthus Cult- with fertility twins, Freyr and Freya whose father is Njord (thought to be the male twin counterpart to Nerthus), also Freyr was a very important god before Norse times as seen in the language of Frea in Old English as "God". It is interesting that Freya would have half of the Slain in Heaven, a homage to the original "Lord" god later worshipped as a separate aspect from his sister in Ingvi-Freyr in Sweden.

You've just stepped into a realm (Norse myth) of which I know nearly nothing. I know nothing about Nerthus- what's that? Your right Freya appears in Beowulf several times, as in the opening preface about Scyld;

felahror feran on Frean wære

I remember somewhere that this Ingvi/Ing represented an even earlier form of Freyr. Right, this Ing character was a fertility deity. In the 1st centuries BC-AD it seems to be tied to the Celto-Germanic occupation of Denmark, north west Germany and part of the Low-Counties. As you'll see above in my clip of NATURALIS HISTORIAE, the Romans called this confederation the Inguaeones (followers of Ing or Ingvi?), whom they list as the Cimbri, Teutoni, and Chaucorum (another group of tribes along the northwest German coast). Was there a male counter part to Ingvi, as the northwest Kelts had a similar but male deity called Angus/Ongus (fertility and light)?

[Starforge]

So, they are teaching this in school now? If so, great as I've been watching this Global Warming craz deveople on TV over the last three years and quite frankly, I can't believe the utter insanity.

Like many religions, people come up with these "end of the world" theories. Must be a human need satisfied in there somewhere. I'm personally all for scientific facts regarding human impact on climate change and also interested in scientific facts on what we can do that would actually have a positive impact on reducing emissions. What I don't appreciate is "Repent! the end is near!" with no real or realistic solutions offered that would have any measurable or proveable scientific impact.

I can get the faith-based doom and gloom on Sunday if I choose.

Sorry for driving off topic. Enjoying the thread immensely - always informative here.