01 Nov 2008
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I was wondering when somebody would notice this: the Caucasus is the Indo-European homeland, and heartland. And the folks who are still there are just the w=ones that stayed at home during the migration age. The only thing the Ossetians are missing is that, of course, they are related to the Georgians (and the Russians) as well as the Scots, the Franks and the English.

Heathenry does a lot of toponymy, the study of place names, to ascertain the extent and nature of various god-cults in the Viking Age and before. So it's no surprise to me that there are placenames all over Western Europe that can be traced back to the Caucasus.

Hundreds of years ago, Ossetians roamed all over Western Europe, from the Caucasus to Scotland. As Tim Whewell reveals, the folk memories of these wanderings have lingered down the centuries, so that it can be hard to tell where myth ends and history begins.

(link) [BBC News]

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