Reply To: WHtOW – fluff and does it make sense ?

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Proto-Norse ‘Alb’ = white. Elf, elb, alb are variations.

You’re still stuck in the Abrahamically falsified comic book version of Nordic – and generally European –  mythology, which also explains why you still believe the propaganda about northern Europeans  – Celts and Germans – having been ‘ignorant, unwashed savages’ until the central and eastern Mediterraneans ‘enlightened’ them. Many people believe this crap, many centuries of propaganda and lies have made sure of that.

There is plenty of evidence, including many current archeological finds, that Celts and Norse were culturally on at least the same level as anyone in the Middle East or Mediterranean, and maybe even before they were.

Elves being archers has nothing to do with mythology, but comes from fantasy literature, primarily Tolkien. Who, by the way, based the Elven languages he invented on Welsh and Finnish (both of whom do have some pretty good archery tradition), respectively. He clearly wasn’t thinking Mongols…….

Think about this: What do you ‘know’ – or think you know – about the Celts and who authored most of those beliefs ? The Romans, arch enemies of the Celts.

What do you ‘know’ about the Germans and Norse ? Mostly stuff written by Christian scribes, arch enemies of anything European.

And your teachers in history class basically just parroted all that Roman and Christian propaganda, which you take for ‘fact’…..because they wouldn’t LIE about their ENEMIES now, would they…….no, never…..